Path Traversal in Autodesk Design Review
CVE-2008-4471
Directory traversal vulnerability in the CExpressViewerControl class in the DWF Viewer ActiveX control (AdView.dll 9.0.0.96), as used in Revit Architecture 2009 SP2 and Autodesk Design Review 2009, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via "..\" sequences in the argument to the SaveAS method.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.067 (93.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.067 · newest: 0.067 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Autodesk Design Review — versions 2009
- Autodesk Dwf Viewer
- Autodesk Revit Architecture — versions 2009
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6630 (exploit)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/4361 (third-party-advisory)
- retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_autodesk_revit_arch_2009_exploit.html (Exploit)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45519 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/31487 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2704 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496847/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/31989 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)