A vulnerability has been identified in PADS Standard/Plus Viewer (All versions).

published 2022-07-12 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-37232

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.4%; EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits: 0; none known

A vulnerability has been identified in PADS Standard/Plus Viewer (All versions). The affected application is vulnerable to an out of bounds read past the end of an allocated buffer when parsing PCB files. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. (FG-VD-22-037, FG-VD-22-059)

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-22-195-08 updated 2022-07-12 cvss 7.8

Siemens PADS Standard/Plus Viewer

Siemens PADS Standard/Plus Viewer
affected: mitigation, no fix planned

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Siemens PADS Standard/Plus Viewer

Classification

Weakness

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

References

cert-portal.siemens.com /productcert/pdf/ssa-439148.pdf
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-34272
NVD CVE-2022-34272

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Summary