CVE-2024-47046
Published: 08 October 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-47046 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Siemens Simcenter Nastran. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 29.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-42781
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability has been identified in Simcenter Femap V2306 (All versions), Simcenter Femap V2401 (All versions), Simcenter Femap V2406 (All versions). The affected application is vulnerable to memory corruption while parsing specially crafted BDF files. This could allow an attacker…
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to execute code in the context of the current process.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Ongoing control assessments and code testing (static/dynamic analysis, fuzzing) surface memory buffer restriction failures, which are then remediated before release.
Managed runtimes used by platform-independent applications (e.g., JVM, CLR) enforce memory safety, preventing most buffer overflows that require direct memory manipulation.
Memory protections (e.g., W^X, ASLR) make exploitation of buffer-boundary violations far harder to turn into code execution.
Detects exploitation attempts that produce memory corruption, crashes, or anomalous behavior.