CVE-2024-29189 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00118.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Ansys	Pyansys Geometry

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:ansys:pyansys_geometry::::::::
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References

Link	Providers
https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html
https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428
https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/902071701c4f3a8258cbaa46c28dc0a65442d1bc
https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/f82346b9432b06532e84f3278125f5879b4e9f3f
https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076
https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1077
https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/security/advisories/GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm

History

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Ansys Ansys pyansys Geometry
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:ansys:pyansys_geometry::::::::
Vendors & Products		Ansys Ansys pyansys Geometry

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-03-26T02:50:34.984Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:27:31.415Z

Reserved: 2024-03-18T17:07:00.094Z

Link: CVE-2024-29189

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T01:10:54.820Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-03-26T03:15:13.150

Modified: 2025-12-15T21:38:09.403

Link: CVE-2024-29189

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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