CVE-2025-57109

Publication date 30 October 2025

Last updated 13 April 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Kitware VTK (Visualization Toolkit) 9.5.0 is vulnerable to Heap Use-After-Free in vtkGLTFImporter::ImportActors. When processing GLTF files with invalid scene node references, the application accesses string members of mesh objects that have been previously freed during actor import operations.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vtk9	26.04 LTS resolute	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	25.10 questing	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable, fix deferred

Notes

bruce

As of 2026-04-13 no patch available

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L