CVE-2025-12659: siemens simcenter_femap Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-12659 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in siemens simcenter_femap. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 12-05-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 09-06-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Siemens Simcenter Femap contains a memory corruption vulnerability while parsing specially crafted IPT 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().