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Memory Corruption Vulnerability in the Autodesk® Subassembly Composer® Software

Autodesk ID: ADSK-SA-2022-0018
Product, Service, Component: Autodesk® Subassembly Composer®
Impact: Memory Corruption
Severity: High
Original Publish: 09/07/2022
Last Revised: 09/07/2022

Severity	CVSS 3.0 Score	Impact
Low	0.1 - 3.9	A vulnerability where scope and impact of exploitation is restricted and the ability to exploit is extremely difficult.
Medium	4.0 - 6.9	A vulnerability where exploitation is mitigated by factors such as difficulty to exploit, default configuration or ease of identification.
High	7.0 - 8.9	A vulnerability, which if exploited, would directly impact the confidentiality, integrity or availability of user’s data or processing resources.
Critical	9.0 - 10	A vulnerability, which if exploited, would allow remote execution of malicious code without user action.

Summary

Multiple Autodesk Subassembly Composer-based products have been affected by Memory Corruption vulnerability.

Description

The details of the vulnerabilities are as follows:

1) CVE-2022-41301 - A maliciously crafted PKT file when consumed through SubassemblyComposer.exe application could lead to memory corruption vulnerability by read access violation. This vulnerability in conjunction with other vulnerabilities could lead to code execution in the context of the current process.

2) CVE-2022-41305 - A maliciously crafted PKT file when consumed through SubassemblyComposer.exe application could lead to memory corruption vulnerability by write access violation. This vulnerability in conjunction with other vulnerabilities could lead to code execution in the context of the current process.

Affected Products

Item	Impacted Versions	Mitigated Versions**	Update Source
Autodesk® Subassembly Composer	2023, 2022, 2021, 2020	2023.1, 2022.2.1, 2021.3.2, 2020.6.3	Autodesk Desktop App, or Accounts Portal

*Note: Product list table contents subject to change.

**Note: Autodesk® Subassembly Composer Hotfix includes CVE-2022-41307, CVE-2022-41308 related to CVE-2022-41301

Recommendations

Autodesk strongly recommends that users of Autodesk Subassembly Composer 2023 version and earlier versions download and install the security hotfix referenced above via the Autodesk Desktop App or the Accounts Portal.

Customers using previous versions that no longer qualify for full support should plan to upgrade to a supported version as soon as possible to avoid downtime and potential security vulnerabilities. Visit the Autodesk Knowledge Network for more information about previous version support.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following researchers for reporting the relevant issues and for working with Autodesk to help protect our customers:

Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs for reporting CVE-2022-41301, CVE-2022-41305, CVE-2022-41307, CVE-2022-41308

Revision History

Revision	Date	Description
1.0	09/07/2022	Initial Release of the Security Advisory

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