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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2023-32737 EUVD-2023-36962GHSA-v9r2-vfw5-q6j9

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC STEP 7 Safety V18 (All versions < V18 Update 2). Affected applications do not properly restr…

Published Jul 9, 2024 · Updated Aug 27, 2025 · Assigned by siemens

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC STEP 7 Safety V18 (All versions < V18 Update 2). Affected applications do not properly restrict the .NET BinaryFormatter when deserializing user-controllable input. This could allow an attacker to cause a type confusion and execute arbitrary code within the affected application.

This is the same issue that exists for .NET BinaryFormatter https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/code-quality/ca2300.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 Safety V18 < V18 Update 2 V18 Update 2

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