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.
Published: 2024-07-09
Score: 7 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-36962 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.
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Siemens Simatic Step 7
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: siemens

Published:

Updated: 2025-08-27T20:32:53.574Z

Reserved: 2023-05-12T13:16:47.721Z

Link: CVE-2023-32737

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Updated: 2024-08-02T15:25:36.731Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-07-09T12:15:09.627

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2023-32737

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