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CVE-2026-12569

Exploitation: active CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL Ransomware: known use

CVSS base score: 9.3 (Critical) vendor CNA · v4.0

Score assigned by the vendor's own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); CISA's Vulnrichment program adds a score only when the CNA omits one.

PTC Windchill and FlexPLM Improper Input Validation Vulnerability

Vendor: PTC   Product: Windchill and FlexPLM

Description

PTC Windchill and FlexPLM contains an improper input validation vulnerability allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a malicious request to the network.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 26 points from 2026-06-20, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 40.6% on 2026-08-29.

Published Applicability

CVE List v5 (CNA container) 19 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

Check whether a specific version is affected →

What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

DateSourceArticle
2026-08-24 Check Point Research 24th August – Threat Intelligence Report
2026-07-28 FortiGuard Labs Threat Signal PTC Windchill & FlexPLM RCE

Articles from monitored vendor research blogs and security news feeds that specifically mention this CVE. Coverage begins when feed monitoring started; earlier articles are not indexed.

Detection & Exploitation

Scan
none published
Exploit / Pen Test
none published
Network IDS/IPS
none published
Host / SIEM
none published

Blind spot. No public detection — verify by version/patch. Nothing in the monitored scanner, IDS, SIEM or offensive-tool collections references this CVE, so exposure has to be established from asset inventory and patch level rather than from a signature.

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

active
yes
total
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9.3 CRITICAL
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/U:Red
CWE-20 — Improper input validation
2026-06-18

D3FEND Countermeasures

Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-20) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.

KEV Catalog Status

2026-06-25
2026-06-28
Known

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA Vulnrichment 2026-06-18 source record →
CISA KEV 2026-06-25 source record →

Referenced in Advisories

DateAdvisoryIssuer
2026-06-25 CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog CISA

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References