ICSA-21-103-06: Siemens Solid Edge File Parsing (Update A)

CISA's summary

Summary: Siemens has released a new version for Solid Edge to fix multiple vulnerabilities that could be triggered when the application reads files in different file formats (PAR, DFT extensions). If a user is tricked to open a malicious file with the affected application, this could lead to a crash, and potentially also to arbitrary code execution or data extraction on the target host system. Siemens recommends to update to the latest version and to avoid opening of untrusted files from unknown sources.

Products, as the advisory lists them

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Vulnerabilities in this advisory

• CVE-2020-26997 — CVE-2020-26997 · CWE-822

  Affected applications lack proper validation of user-supplied data when parsing PAR files. This could lead to pointer dereferences of a value obtained from untrusted source. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. (ZDI-CAN-11919)

• CVE-2020-28385 — CVE-2020-28385 · CWE-787

  Affected applications lack proper validation of user-supplied data when parsing DFT files. This could result in an out of bounds write past the end of an allocated structure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. (ZDI-CAN-12049)

• CVE-2021-25678 — CVE-2021-25678 · CWE-787

  Affected applications lack proper validation of user-supplied data when parsing PAR files. This could result in an out of bounds write past the end of an allocated structure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. (ZDI-CAN-12529)

• CVE-2021-27380 — CVE-2021-27380 · CWE-787

  Affected applications lack proper validation of user-supplied data when parsing PAR files. This could result in an out of bounds write past the end of an allocated structure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. (ZDI-CAN-12532)

• CVE-2021-27382 — CVE-2021-27382 · CWE-121

  Affected applications lack proper validation of user-supplied data when parsing of PAR files. This could result in a stack based buffer overflow. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. (ZDI-CAN-13040)

Acknowledgments, as the advisory lists them

• Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative: coordinated disclosure
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA): coordination efforts

The advisory's legal notice

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Sources

• The advisory at cisa.gov
• The CSAF document (JSON)

DeSpy's copy of this version is dated 2026-09-28.