CVE-2025-23402
Published: 11 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23402 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) 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 26.1th 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 mitigates the use-after-free vulnerability by requiring timely application of vendor patches as specified in Siemens advisory SSA-050438.
Implements memory protection mechanisms like ASLR and DEP to prevent unauthorized code execution from use-after-free exploits during WRL file parsing.
Enforces validation of WRL file inputs to block specially crafted files from triggering the parsing-related use-after-free vulnerability.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The use-after-free vulnerability enables arbitrary code execution when parsing a malicious WRL file, directly mapping to T1203 (Exploitation for Client Execution) and T1204.002 (Malicious File under User Execution) as the user must open the crafted 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 applications contain a use-after-free vulnerability that could be triggered while parsing specially crafted WRL files. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-23402 is a use-after-free vulnerability (CWE-416) 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 is triggered when the affected applications parse 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). Published on March 11, 2025, it enables arbitrary code execution in the context of the current process.
An attacker with local access to a system running a vulnerable version can exploit this issue by convincing a user to open a maliciously crafted WRL file through the application, as it requires user interaction but no privileges. Low attack complexity allows exploitation with minimal effort, potentially leading to high-impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability violations within the process scope, such as data theft, modification, or denial of service.
Siemens security advisory SSA-050438, available at https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-050438.html, provides details on the vulnerability and mitigation steps, including upgrading to the specified patched versions or later.
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