CVE-2022-41168 — Due to lack of proper memory management, when a victim opens a manipulated CATIA

Due to lack of proper memory management, when a victim opens a manipulated CATIA5 Part (.catpart, CatiaTranslator.exe) file received from untrusted sources in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author - version 9, it is possible that a Remote Code Execution can be triggered when payload fo

01What is this vulnerability?

Due to lack of proper memory management, when a victim opens a manipulated CATIA5 Part (.catpart, CatiaTranslator.exe) file received from untrusted sources in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author - version 9, it is possible that a Remote Code Execution can be triggered when payload forces a stack-based overflow or a re-use of dangling pointer which refers to overwritten space in memory.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
SAP SE	SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author	9

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-10-11T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T12:35:49.485Z

09References

• www.sap.com — https://www.sap.com/documents/2022/02/fa865ea4-167e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html
• launchpad.support.sap.com — https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3245929