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CVE-2023-0973 (GCVE-0-2023-0973)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-13 17:06 – Updated: 2025-01-16 21:55
VLAI
Title
Step Tools Third-Party
Summary
STEPTools v18SP1 ifcmesh library (v18.1) is affected due to a null pointer dereference, which could allow an attacker to deny application usage when reading a specially constructed file, resulting in an application crash.
Severity
2.2 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-16 20:21 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Step Tools v18SP1 ifcmesh library Affected: v18.1
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Date Public
2023-03-09 18:00
Credits
Siemens reported this third-party vulnerability to CISA.
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