Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation DOE File Parser stack-based overflow

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A vulnerability has been found in Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component DOE File Parser. The manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-11918. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation (the affected version unknown). This issue affects an unknown part of the component DOE File Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Rockwell Automation Arena® suffers from a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of DOE files. Local attackers are able to exploit this issue to potentially execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Arena®. Exploiting the vulnerability requires opening a malicious DOE file.

The advisory is shared at rockwellautomation.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-11918 since 10/17/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. 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 $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/18/2025).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-197610). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Automation Software

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• Rockwell Automation

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• Arena Simulation

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• commercial

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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