CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2024-29189
High (7.8) in ansys pyansys geometry. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in ansys-geometry-core 0.3.3, 0.4.12.
PyAnsys Geometry is a Python client library for the Ansys Geometry service and other CAD Ansys products. On file src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py, upon calling this method _start_program directly, users could exploit its usage to perform malicious operations on the current machine where the script is ran. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.3 and 0.4.12.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 27% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-78
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- ansys:pyansys_geometry
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm | PyPI | ansys-geometry-core | >=0.3.0 <0.3.3 | 0.3.3 |
| GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm | PyPI | ansys-geometry-core | >=0.4.0 <0.4.12 | 0.4.12 |
| PYSEC-2026-1127 | PyPI | ansys-geometry-core | >=0.3.0 <0.3.3 >=0.4.0 <0.4.12 | 0.3.3, 0.4.12 |
References
- https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/902071701c4f3a8258cbaa46c28dc0a65442d1bc
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/f82346b9432b06532e84f3278125f5879b4e9f3f
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076