CVE-2025-11918 PUBLISHED

Rockwell Automation Arena® Simulation Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Assigner: Rockwell
Reserved: 17.10.2025 Published: 14.11.2025 Updated: 14.11.2025

Rockwell Automation 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.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.1

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Local	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	High	Integrity	High	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Active

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	Rockwell Automation
Product	Arena® Simulation
Versions	Default: unaffected Version Version 16.20.10 and prior is affected

Solutions

Upgrade to version 16.20.11 and later

References

https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/trust-center/security-advisories/advisory.SD1763.html

Problem Types

CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE