CVE-2025-23400
Published: 11 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23400 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 Malicious File (T1204.002); 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 addresses the CVE by requiring identification, prioritization, and timely patching of the memory corruption flaw in affected Teamcenter Visualization and Tecnomatix Plant Simulation versions during WRL file parsing.
Implements memory protection mechanisms like ASLR and DEP to prevent arbitrary code execution resulting from the memory corruption vulnerability when parsing malicious WRL files.
Requires validation of information inputs such as WRL files to mitigate risks from specially crafted files that trigger memory corruption in the affected applications.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
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.
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-2025-23400 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.
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