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Vulnerabilities in the Autodesk® 3ds Max® USD plugin

Autodesk ID: ADSK-SA-2023-0008
Product, Service, Component: Autodesk® 3ds Max® USD plugin
Impact: Out-of-Bounds Read, Out-of-Bounds Write, Use After Free, Uninitialized Pointer
Severity: High
Original Publish: 4/27/2023
Last Revised: 4/27/2023.

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

USD (Universal Scene Description) plugin for Autodesk® 3ds Max® has been affected by file-parsing uninitialized variable, use-after-free, out-of-bounds read, and out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities.

Description

The details of the vulnerability are as follows:

1) CVE-2023-25006: - A malicious actor may convince a user to open a malicious USD file that may trigger a use-after-free vulnerability which could result in code execution.

2) CVE-2023-25007: - A malicious actor may convince a user to open a malicious USD file that may trigger an uninitialized pointer which could result in code execution.

3) CVE-2023-25008: - A malicious actor may convince a user to open a malicious USD file that may trigger an out-of-bounds read vulnerability which could result in code execution.

4) CVE-2023-25009: - A malicious actor may convince a user to open a malicious USD file that may trigger an out-of-bounds write vulnerability which could result in code execution.

Affected Products

Item	Impacted Versions	Mitigated Versions	Update Source
Autodesk® 3ds Max® USD plugin	USD for 3ds Max® 0.3	USD for 3ds Max® 0.4	Accounts Portal

Recommendations

Autodesk highly recommends that customers install the latest version of their plugins by logging into their Autodesk account at manage.autodesk.com and downloading the mitigated plugin version USD for 3ds Max 0.4. For more information, visit the USD for 3ds Max 0.4 Release Notes.

Acknowledgements

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

Michael DePlante of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for reporting CVE-2023-25006, CVE-2023-25007, CVE-2023-25008, CVE-2023-25009

Revision History

Revision: 1.0 | 4/27/2023 |Description: Initial Release of the Security Advisory

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