Vulnerabilities / CVE-2020-28601

critical

CVE-2020-28601

A code execution vulnerability exists in the Nef polygon-parsing funct ...

Published Modified CWE 129, 125
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

A code execution vulnerability exists in the Nef polygon-parsing functionality of CGAL libcgal CGAL-5.1.1. An oob read vulnerability exists in Nef_2/PM_io_parser.h PM_io_parser::read_vertex() Face_of[] OOB read. An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10cgal4.13-1+deb10u1
debian 11cgal5.2-3
debian 12cgal5.2-3
debian 13cgal5.2-3
debian 14cgal5.2-3
debian 9cgal4.9-1+deb9u1
echocgal5.2-3
ubuntu 18.04-ESMcgalno fix listed

References

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