PT-2023-29236 · Musescore+1 · Musescore+1

Osori + 1 · Published 2023-10-04 · Updated 2025-08-18 · CVE-2023-44428

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MuseScore (affected versions not specified)

Description This issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of MuseScore. User interaction is required to exploit this issue, where the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of CAP files, resulting from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute code in the context of the current process.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

RCE

Memory Corruption

Heap Based Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

CWE-122

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-44428

ZDI-23-1526

Affected Products

Debian

Musescore

References · 10

• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1526 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-44428 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-44428 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44428 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-44428 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44428 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-44428 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-44428 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cveNotify/132674 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1786444266178523549 · Twitter Post