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CVE-2011-10015

Published: Aug 13, 2025

Modified: May 25, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cytel Inc.	Cytel Studio	affected `0 - <= 9.0`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/cytel_studio_cy3.rb

exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17930

exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18027

exploit

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/cytel_1-adv.txt

technical-description

exploit

https://web.archive.org/web/20110708215826/http://www.cytel.com/Software/LogXact.aspx

product

https://web.archive.org/web/20110708215830/http://www.cytel.com/Software/StatXact.aspx

product

https://web.archive.org/web/20110301000000*/http://www.cytel.com/Software/StatXact.aspx

product

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cytel-studio-cy3-file-stack-buffer-overflow

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