Siemens Simcenter Femap

August 13, 2026·Source: CISA

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TL;DR

View CSAF Summary Simcenter Femap contains two file parsing vulnerabilities that could be triggered when the application reads files in BMP file format. If a user is tricked to open a malicious file with the affected application, this could lead the application to crash or potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. Siemens has released a new version for Simcenter Femap and recommends to update to the latest version. The following versions of Siemens Simcenter Femap are affected: Simcenter Femap vers:intdot/<2606.0001 (CVE-2026-59700, CVE-2026-59701) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities

v3 7.8 Siemens Siemens Simcenter Femap Out-of-bounds Read

Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: Germany Vulnerabilities Expand All + CVE-2026-59700 The affected applications contains an out of bounds read vulnerability while parsing specially crafted BMP files. This could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the current process. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens Simcenter Femap Vendor: Siemens Product Version: Simcenter Femap < V2606.0001 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V2606.0001 or later version https://support.sw.siemens.com/product/275652363/ Relevant CWE: CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read Metrics CVSS Version Base Score Base Severity Vector String

3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2026-59701 The affected applications contains an out of bounds read vulnerability while parsing specially crafted BMP files. This could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the current process. View CVE Details Affected Products Siemens Simcenter Femap Vendor: Siemens Product Version: Simcenter Femap < V2606.0001 Product Status: known_affected Remediations Vendor fix Update to V2606.0001 or later version https://support.sw.siemens.com/product/275652363/ Relevant CWE: CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read M

What Happened

Siemens Simcenter Femap, reported by CISA.

v3 7.8 Siemens Siemens Simcenter Femap Out-of-bounds Read

3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

For the full technical details, see the original report.

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