CVE-2011-10015

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.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

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

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2025-08-13 21:15

Updated : 2026-06-16 23:28

NVD link : CVE-2011-10015

Mitre link : CVE-2011-10015

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2011-10015

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-121

Stack-based Buffer Overflow

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