CVE-2024-41981

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-10-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-122

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Simcenter Femap V2306 (All versions), Simcenter Femap V2401 (All versions), Simcenter Femap V2406 (All versions). The affected application is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow while parsing specially crafted BDF files. This could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the current process.

Affected products

Siemens Simcenter Nastran: from 2306.0; from 2312.0; from 2406.0 before 2406.5000 — fixed in 2406.5000

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Siemens Simcenter Nastran 2406.5000. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-852501.html
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-881356.html

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