This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NIKON NIS-Elements Viewer 13.2.0.21165.…

Description

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NIKON NIS-Elements Viewer 13.2.0.21165. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of ND2 files. Crafted data in a ND2 file can trigger a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-15072.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-125 and its CVEs

Affected products

• NIKON · NIS-Elements Viewer

  • affected 13.2.0.21165

References (3)

• https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-1212/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.software-dl.microscope.healthcare.nikon.com/vuln/pdf/Vulnerabilities_on_NIS-Elements_Freeware_and_L_en_240917_02.pdf (opens in a new tab)
• https://www.software-dl.microscope.healthcare.nikon.com/vuln/index.html (opens in a new tab)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Jan 2025, 18:47 UTC.