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Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-11-14 15:30 – Updated: 2025-11-17 18:30

Details

Rockwell Automation Arena® suffers from a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of DOE files. Local attackers are able to exploit this issue to potentially execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Arena®. Exploiting the vulnerability requires opening a malicious DOE file.

Severity ?

7.3 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVE-2025-11918 (GCVE-0-2025-11918)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-14 13:28 – Updated: 2025-11-14 15:44

Title

Rockwell Automation Arena® Simulation Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Summary

Severity ?

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Assigner

Rockwell

References

URL

Tags

https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/trust-ce…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Rockwell Automation	Arena® Simulation	Affected: Version 16.20.10 and prior

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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