CVE-2020-13494: Pixar Openusd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A heap overflow vulnerability exists in the Pixar OpenUSD 20.05 parsing of compressed string tokens in binary USD files. A specially crafted malformed file can trigger a heap overflow which can result in out of bounds memory access which could lead to information disclosure. This vulnerability could be used to bypass mitigations and aid further exploitation. To trigger this vulnerability, victim needs to access an attacker-provided malformed file.

Affected products

• Pixar Openusd: version 20.05 only

Published 2020-12-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.