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Product Description
Arena® Simulation from Rockwell Automation is a powerful, easy-to-use discrete-event modeling software that enables users to build, analyze, and optimize digital representations of complex systems for better decision-making, risk reduction, and performance improvement across industries.
Affected Products and Solution
Affected Product |
CVE |
Affected Software Version |
Corrected in Software Version |
Arena® Simulation |
CVE-2025-11918 |
Version 16.20.10 and prior |
Security Issue Details
Category |
Details |
CVE ID |
CVE-2025-11918 |
Impact |
Arena® suffers from a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of DOE files. Local attackers are able to exploit this issue to potentially execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Arena®. Exploiting the vulnerability requires opening a malicious DOE file. |
CVSS 3.1 Base Score |
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CVSS 4.0 Base Score |
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CWE |
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Known Exploited Vulnerability |
No (Not listed in KEV database) |
Mitigations and Workarounds
Customers using the affected software, who are not able to upgrade to one of the corrected versions, should use our security best practices.
Revision History
Revision |
Date |
Description |
1.0 |
November 14, 2025 |
Initial release |
Glossary:
· Arbitrary Code Execution: an attacker's ability to run any commands or code of the attacker's choice on a target machine or in a target process
· Buffer Overflow: when a program writes more data to a buffer than it can hold, causing the excess data to overflow into adjacent memory locations
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