CVE-2024-33577: siemens simcenter_femap Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-33577 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in siemens simcenter_femap. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 14-05-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 02-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Simcenter Femap (All versions < V2406). The affected applications contain a stack overflow vulnerability while parsing specially strings as argument for one of the application binaries. This could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the current process.

• CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowA 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).