CVE-2021-45948: Assimp

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Open Asset Import Library (aka assimp) 5.1.0 and 5.1.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow in _m3d_safestr (called from m3d_load and Assimp::M3DWrapper::M3DWrapper).

Affected products

• Assimp Assimp: version 5.1.0 only; version 5.1.1 only

Published 2022-01-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.