Siemens Solid Edge up to 224.0 Update 1 PAR File heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Siemens Solid Edge up to 224.0 Update 1. It has been classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component PAR File Handler. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-34771. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Siemens Solid Edge up to 224.0 Update 1. It has been declared 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 (All versions < V224.0 Update 2). 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 advisory is shared at cert-portal.siemens.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-34771 since 05/08/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/14/2024).

Applying the patch 224.0 Update 2 is able to eliminate this problem.

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• Siemens

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• Solid Edge

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• 224.0 Update 1

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.siemens.com/

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