# CVE-2024-12740: Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component exposes Vulnerabilities in NI Vision Software

Status: published. Published: 2025-01-27. Updated: 2026-11-11.

Vision-related software from NI used a third-party library for image processing that exposes several vulnerabilities.  These vulnerabilities may result in arbitrary code execution.  Successful exploitation requires an attacker to get a user to open a specially crafted file.

## Remediation

No remediation reported in collected sources

## Affected products and versions

- NI / Vision Development Module: ≥ 0; < 25.0.0 (affected, semver). Source: CNA: NI
- NI / FlexRIO: ≥ 0; < 25.0.0 (affected, semver). Source: CNA: NI
- NI / NI-IMAQdx: ≥ 0; ≤ 23.1.0 (affected, semver). Source: CNA: NI
- NI / Vision Acquisition Software: ≥ 0; ≤ 23.1.0 (affected, sem). Source: CNA: NI
- NI / Vision Builder for Automated Inspection: ≥ 0; < 24.0.0 (affected, semver). Source: CNA: NI
- NI / Data Record AD: ≥ 0; ≤ 2.0.0 (affected, semver). Source: CNA: NI
- NI / FRC Game Tools: ≥ 0; ≤ 25.0.0 (affected, semver). Source: CNA: NI

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 3.1: 7.8 (high); CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H; source: CNA: NI

- CVSS 4.0: 7 (high); CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N; source: CNA: NI

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: 0.19% as of 2026-11-10; percentile 8.66%

- SSVC: exploitation none; automatable no; technical impact total; source ADP: CISA-ADP

- Weaknesses: CWE-1395

## Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

## References

- https://www.ni.com/en/support/security/available-critical-and-security-updates-for-ni-software/dependency-on-vulnerable-third-party-component-exposes-vulnerabi.html (CNA: NI)

## Provenance

- CNA: NI: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12740; retrieved 2026-11-11; source updated 2026-11-11

- FIRST EPSS: https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-12740; retrieved 2026-11-11; source updated Not reported

Revision: 9e40231e2e03c5def9041f0bcc17e69810bbfe9428e2dd722c17d4b32f98766c

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