Siemens Solid Edge SE2023 up to 223.0 Update 9 PAR File heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Siemens Solid Edge SE2023 up to 223.0 Update 9. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component PAR File Handler. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-49122. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability has been found in Siemens Solid Edge SE2023 up to 223.0 Update 9 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component PAR File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability has been identified in Solid Edge SE2023 (All versions < V223.0 Update 10). The affected application is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow while parsing specially crafted PAR files. This could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the current process.

The weakness was disclosed 01/09/2024 as ssa-589891. It is possible to read the advisory at cert-portal.siemens.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-49122 since 11/22/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/09/2024).

Applying the patch 223.0 Update 10 is able to eliminate this problem.

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• Siemens

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• Solid Edge SE2023

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• 223.0 Update 9

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.siemens.com/

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