CVE-2024-21920 Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation Vulnerable To Buffer Overflow
A buffer overflow in Rockwell Arena Simulation allows attackers to read sensitive memory or crash the application by tricking users into opening malicious files.
- 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-2024-21920?
CVE-2024-21920 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation, published on 26 Mar 2024. 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 memory buffer vulnerability in Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation could potentially let a threat actor read beyond the intended memory boundaries. This could reveal sensitive information and even cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial-of-service condition. To trigger this, the user would unwittingly need to open a malicious file shared by the threat actor.
Weakness: CWE-125
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-21920?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Rockwellautomation Arena.
How do I fix CVE-2024-21920?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-21920 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2024-21920 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-21920 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation Arena Simulation
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xwx2-w5q7-pgf8.