Siemens COMOS IAM Client SDK untrusted search path

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A vulnerability was found in Siemens COMOS, Designcenter NX, Simcenter 3D, Simcenter Femap, Simcenter Nastran, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, Solid Edge, Teamcenter Visualization and Tecnomatix Plant Simulation. It has been rated as critical. This affects an unknown function of the component IAM Client SDK. The manipulation leads to untrusted search path. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-40945. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Siemens COMOS, Designcenter NX, Simcenter 3D, Simcenter Femap, Simcenter Nastran, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, Solid Edge, Teamcenter Visualization and Tecnomatix Plant Simulation. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component IAM Client SDK. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a untrusted search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-426. The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability has been identified in COMOS V10.4.5 (All versions < V10.4.5.0.2), COMOS V10.6 (All versions < V10.6.1), Designcenter NX (All versions < V2512.7000), Simcenter 3D (All versions < V2512.7000), Simcenter Femap V2506 (All versions < V2506.0003), Simcenter Femap V2512 (All versions < V2512.0002), Simcenter Nastran (All versions < V2606), Simcenter STAR-CCM+ (All versions < V2606), Solid Edge SE2025 (All versions < V225.0 Update 13), Solid Edge SE2026 (All versions < V226.0 Update 04), Teamcenter Visualization V2412 (All versions < V2412.0012), Teamcenter Visualization V2506 (All versions < V2506.0009), Teamcenter Visualization V2512 (All versions < V2512.2605), Tecnomatix Plant Simulation V2404 (All versions < V2404.0022), Tecnomatix Plant Simulation V2504 (All versions < V2504.0010), Tecnomatix Process Simulate (All versions < V2606). Untrusted search path in IAM Client SDK may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

It is possible to read the advisory at cert-portal.siemens.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-40945 since 04/16/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. 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 07/14/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1574 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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

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Type

• SCADA Software

Vendor

• Siemens

Name

• COMOS
• Designcenter NX
• Simcenter 3D
• Simcenter Femap
• Simcenter Nastran
• Simcenter STAR-CCM+
• Solid Edge
• Teamcenter Visualization
• Tecnomatix Plant Simulation

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.siemens.com/

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