CVE-2025-40800
Published: 09 December 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-40800 is a critical-severity Improper Certificate Validation (CWE-295) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked at the 4.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-201929
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability has been identified in COMOS V10.6 (All versions < V10.6.1), COMOS V10.6 (All versions < V10.6.1), NX V2412 (All versions < V2412.8700), NX V2506 (All versions < V2506.6000), Simcenter 3D (All versions < V2506.6000), Simcenter Femap (All versions…
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< V2506.0002), Solid Edge SE2025 (All versions < V225.0 Update 10), Solid Edge SE2026 (All versions < V226.0 Update 1). The IAM client in affected products is missing server certificate validation while establishing TLS connections to the authorization server. This could allow an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.
- 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.
When certificates are used to establish component provenance, the control requires correct certificate validation procedures.
Mandates approved trust anchors and issuance policies, directly preventing acceptance of unvalidated or untrusted certificates.
Correct system time is required for proper enforcement of certificate notBefore/notAfter dates and time-based revocation checks.