ICSA-21-350-15: Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Viewer
CISA advisory · released 2021-12-14
Source record Collected from CISA's CSAF advisory feed
- Distribution label in the document: TLP:WHITE
- Revision 2, 2025-05-06 (final)
CISA's summary
Summary: Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Viewer is affected by a vulnerability that could be triggered when the application reads scene (.sce) files. 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 has released an update for Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Viewer and recommends to update to the latest version to fix the vulnerability. Siemens recommends to avoid opening of untrusted files from unknown sources.
Products, as the advisory lists them
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Siemens | Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Viewer | <2021.3.1 |
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Vulnerabilities in this advisory
- CVE-2021-42024 — CVE-2021-42024 · CWE-787
The starview+.exe application lacks proper validation of user-supplied data when parsing scene 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.
Acknowledgments, as the advisory lists them
- Siemens ProductCERT: reporting this vulnerability to CISA.
- Jin Huang, ADLab of Venustech: reporting the vulnerability
The advisory's legal notice
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Sources
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