CVE-2025-23398
Published: 11 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23398 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119) vulnerability in Siemens Teamcenter Visualization. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203); ranked at the 25.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-16 (Memory Protection) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly mandates timely identification, reporting, and remediation of flaws like CVE-2025-23398 through patching to vendor-fixed versions such as V14.3.0.13 or later.
Implements memory protection mechanisms like ASLR, DEP, and stack canaries to comprehensively mitigate memory corruption vulnerabilities during WRL file parsing.
Requires validation of inputs such as specially crafted WRL files to prevent parsing flaws that lead to memory corruption and code execution.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Memory corruption in WRL file parsing directly enables arbitrary code execution when a user opens a malicious file, mapping to T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution and T1204.002 Malicious File.
NVD Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Teamcenter Visualization V14.3 (All versions < V14.3.0.13), Teamcenter Visualization V2312 (All versions < V2312.0009), Teamcenter Visualization V2406 (All versions < V2406.0007), Teamcenter Visualization V2412 (All versions < V2412.0002), Tecnomatix Plant Simulation V2302 (All versions…
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< V2302.0021), Tecnomatix Plant Simulation V2404 (All versions < V2404.0010). The affected application is vulnerable to memory corruption while parsing specially crafted WRL files. This could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the current process.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-23398 is a memory corruption vulnerability (CWE-119) affecting multiple versions of Siemens Teamcenter Visualization and Tecnomatix Plant Simulation software. 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 while parsing specially crafted WRL files, with 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). It was published on 2025-03-11.
A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into opening a maliciously crafted WRL file in the affected application. No privileges are required (PR:N), but user interaction is necessary (UI:R), and the attack has low complexity (AC:L). Successful exploitation allows arbitrary code execution in the context of the current process, potentially leading to high-impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromises within the local user's session.
The Siemens product CERT advisory at https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-050438.html provides details on mitigation, recommending updates to the patched versions listed above or later to address the vulnerability.
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