Improper certificate validation in Siemens Solid Edge SE2025
Priority MEDIUM 43CWE-295Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-295.
Summary
A vulnerability has been identified in Solid Edge SE2025 (All versions < V225.0 Update 11). Affected applications do not properly validate client certificates to connect to License Service endpoint. This could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to perform man in the middle attacks.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00227 13th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Solid Edge SE2025 (Siemens): V225.0 Update 11
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Solid Edge SE2025 (Siemens) Fixed in V225.0 Update 11
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-40744
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8mjq-6f3x-gxxr
References
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- TI-2025-09686 Type confusion in Google Chrome KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-07142 Code injection in Spring Framework KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2021-19919 Apache Log4j2 JNDI features do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
Sources
- CVE-2025-40744 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-40744 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-8mjq-6f3x-gxxr · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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