CVE-2024-29189: Ansys Pyansys Geometry

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Ansys Pyansys Geometry: from 0.3.0, before 0.3.3 (fixed in 0.3.3); from 0.4.0, before 0.4.12 (fixed in 0.4.12)

Published 2024-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.