CVE-2024-41981: siemens simcenter femap v2306 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-41981 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in siemens simcenter femap v2306. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 08-10-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 10-12-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Simcenter Femap V2306 (All versions), Simcenter Femap V2401 (All versions), Simcenter Femap V2406 (All versions). The affected application is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow while parsing specially crafted BDF files. This could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the current process.

• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowA 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().