Is CVE-2024-29189 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2024-29189 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2024-29189?

CVE-2024-29189 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.4 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2024-29189?

CVE-2024-29189 has an EPSS score of 0.33% (25th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2024-29189?

Upgrade pyansys geometry to 0.4.12 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2024-29189

HIGH

7.4

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

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.

CWE-78OS Command Injection

How to fix

Remediation Available

pyansys geometryNVD

Affected:>= 0.4.0, < 0.4.12Fixed in:0.4.12CVE-2024-29189derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityHigh

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.33%probability of exploitation in 30 days

25thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 25% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch3

Exploit1

github.com

Issue Tracking2

Technical Description1

bandit.readthedocs.io

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-12-15.