CVE-2020-28601

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2020-28601 · Published 04/03/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-28601 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting computational geometry algorithms library (cgal).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.9%, higher than 87.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
computational geometry algorithms library cgal	`= 5.1.1`	No fix yet

Description

A code execution vulnerability exists in the Nef polygon-parsing functionality of CGAL libcgal CGAL-5.1.1. An oob read vulnerability exists in Nef_2/PM_io_parser.h PM_io_parser::read_vertex() Face_of[] OOB read. An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

computational geometry algorithms library

cgal

= 5.1.1

No fix yet

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