Siemens Solid Edge SE2026 certificate validation

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Siemens COMOS, NX V2412, NX V2506, Simcenter 3D, Simcenter Femap, Solid Edge SE2025 and Solid Edge SE2026. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to certificate validation. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-40800. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Siemens COMOS, NX V2412, NX V2506, Simcenter 3D, Simcenter Femap, Solid Edge SE2025 and Solid Edge SE2026. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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 < 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.

The advisory is shared at cert-portal.siemens.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-40800 since 04/16/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. 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 03/11/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1587.003 for this issue.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Siemens

Name

• COMOS
• NX V2412
• NX V2506
• Simcenter 3D
• Simcenter Femap
• Solid Edge SE2025
• Solid Edge SE2026

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.siemens.com/

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