SSA-161331: Scene File Parsing Vulnerability in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Viewer before V2021.3.1

Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Viewer is affected by a vulnerability that could be triggered when the application reads scene (.sce) files. If a user is tricked to open a malicious file with the affected application, this could lead to a crash, and potentially also to arbitrary code execution or data extraction on the target host system.

Siemens has released an update for Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Viewer and recommends to update to the latest version to fix the vulnerability. Siemens recommends to avoid opening of untrusted files from unknown sources.