CVE-2011-10015
Cytel Studio <= 9.0 .CY3 File Stack Buffer Overflow
Vexday Risk Score
43Attention
SSVC decision (CISA)
Attend
PoC available → attend closely
CVSS 9.3EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit simPatch —
Lifecycle
02 Oct 2011Metasploit module available
13 Aug 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Affected products
Cytel Inc. · Cytel StudioReferences
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/cytel_1-adv.txthttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/cytel_studio_cy3.rbhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110301000000*/http://www.cytel.com/Software/StatXact.aspxhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110708215826/http://www.cytel.com/Software/LogXact.aspxhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110708215830/http://www.cytel.com/Software/StatXact.aspxhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17930https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18027https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cytel-studio-cy3-file-stack-buffer-overflow