CVE-2025-11011

A vulnerability was found in BehaviorTree up to 4.7.0. Affected by this issue is the function JsonExporter::fromJson of the file /src/json_export.cpp. Performing manipulation of the argument Source results in null pointer dereference. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The patch is named 4b23dcaf0ce951a31299ebdd61df69f9ce99a76d. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• https://github.com/BehaviorTree/BehaviorTree.CPP/commit/4b23dcaf0ce951a31299ebdd61df69f9ce99a76d
• https://github.com/BehaviorTree/BehaviorTree.CPP/issues/1008
• https://github.com/BehaviorTree/BehaviorTree.CPP/pull/1009
• https://github.com/user-attachments/files/22270928/poc.zip
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.325954
• https://vuldb.com/?id.325954
• https://vuldb.com/?submit.654073