CVE-2011-10015

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None

Description

Cytel Studio version 9.0 and earlier is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow triggered by parsing a malformed .CY3 file. The vulnerability occurs when the application copies user-controlled strings into a fixed-size stack buffer (256 bytes) without proper bounds checking. Exploitation allows arbitrary code execution when the crafted file is opened.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2011-10015

Assigner
VulnCheck

Vulnerability Status
PUBLISHED

Published Version
2025-08-13T20:33:27.825Z

Last Modified Date
2025-08-13T20:33:27.825Z

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-121	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/121.html

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/cytel_studio_cy3.rb	exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17930	exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18027	exploit
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/cytel_1-adv.txt	technical-description exploit
https://web.archive.org/web/20110708215826/http://www.cytel.com/Software/LogXact.aspx	product
https://web.archive.org/web/20110708215830/http://www.cytel.com/Software/StatXact.aspx	product
https://web.archive.org/web/20110301000000*/http://www.cytel.com/Software/StatXact.aspx	product
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cytel-studio-cy3-file-stack-buffer-overflow	third-party-advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-10015
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-10015

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2025-08-14 10:00:27				Added to TrackCVE