CVE-2025-23400
Published: 11 March 2025
Description
An adversary may rely upon a user opening a malicious file in order to gain execution.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23400 is a memory corruption vulnerability (CWE-119) affecting multiple versions of Siemens Teamcenter Visualization and Tecnomatix Plant Simulation. Specifically, it impacts Teamcenter Visualization V14.3 (all versions prior to V14.3.0.13), V2312 (prior to V2312.0009), V2406 (prior to V2406.0007), and V2412 (prior to V2412.0002), as well as Tecnomatix Plant Simulation V2302 (prior to V2302.0021) and V2404 (prior to V2404.0010). The flaw occurs during the parsing of specially crafted WRL files, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution in the context of the affected process. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and was published on 2025-03-11.
An attacker with local access can exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into opening a maliciously crafted WRL file within the affected applications. No privileges are required (PR:N), though user interaction is necessary (UI:R), and the attack has low complexity (AC:L). Successful exploitation allows the attacker to achieve high-impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability effects within the same security scope, enabling arbitrary code execution in the context of the current process.
The Siemens security advisory at https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-050438.html provides details on mitigation, recommending updates to the patched versions listed for each affected product to address the memory corruption issue during WRL file parsing.
Details
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Affected Products
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
The memory corruption vulnerability during WRL file parsing directly enables arbitrary code execution when a user opens a specially crafted malicious file, mapping to the Malicious File sub-technique under User Execution.