🛡️ CVE-2024-53977
🟡 CVSS 6.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-427 NVD
6.7
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in ModelSim (All versions < V2025.1), Questa (All versions < V2025.1). An example setup script contained in affected applications allows a specific executable file to be loaded from the current working directory. This could allow an authenticated local attacker to inject arbitrary code and escalate privileges in installations where administrators or processes with elevated privileges launch the script from a user-writable directory.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-427
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-02-11
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-09-25
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
modelsim — 2025.1
questa — 2025.1

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