Siemens Solid Edge SE2024 up to 224.0 Update 4 PAR File heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Siemens Solid Edge SE2024 up to 224.0 Update 4. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component PAR File Handler. Performing a manipulation results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-54094. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Siemens Solid Edge SE2024 up to 224.0 Update 4. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown functionality of the component PAR File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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(). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability has been identified in Solid Edge SE2024 (All versions < V224.0 Update 5). 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.

It is possible to read the advisory at cert-portal.siemens.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-54094 since 11/28/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. 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 03/05/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 212771 (Siemens Solid Edge SSA-730188 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 224.0 Update 5 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (212771). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Siemens

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• Solid Edge SE2024

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• 224.0 Update 4

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.siemens.com/

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