CVE-2023-38532 Denial of service in Parasolid V34.1

Medium 4.8 Published Updated

Attackers can cause denial of service in Siemens Parasolid and Teamcenter Visualization by providing a specially crafted X_T file.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2023-38532?

CVE-2023-38532 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Siemens Parasolid, published on 8 Aug 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A vulnerability has been identified in Parasolid V34.1 (All versions < V34.1.258), Parasolid V35.0 (All versions < V35.0.254), Parasolid V35.1 (All versions < V35.1.171), Teamcenter Visualization V14.1 (All versions < V14.1.0.11), Teamcenter Visualization V14.2 (All versions < V14.2.0.6), Teamcenter Visualization V14.3 (All versions < V14.3.0.3). The affected application contains a stack exhaustion vulnerability while parsing a specially crafted X_T file. This could allow an attacker to cause denial of service condition.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-38532?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Siemens Parasolid, Siemens Teamcenter Visualization.

How do I fix CVE-2023-38532?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-38532 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-38532 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38532 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-vpcq-345r-vgx9.

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