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Multiple Vulnerabilities in PSKernel component used by specific Autodesk® products

Autodesk ID: ADSK-SA-2023-0009
Product, Service, Component: pskernel.dll
Impact: Out-of-band Read/Write, Integer Overflow, Memory Corruption
Severity: High
Original Publish: 4/23/2023
Last Revised: 5/18/2023

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

Multiple Autodesk products have been affected by out-of-bound-read, out-of-bound-write, Integer Overflow, and Memory Corruption vulnerabilities.

Description

The details of the vulnerabilities are as follows:

  1. CVE-2023-25003 - A maliciously crafted pskernel.dll file in Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 and Maya 2022 may be used to trigger out-of-bound read write / read vulnerabilities. Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to code execution.
  2. CVE-2023-25004 - A maliciously crafted pskernel.dll file in Autodesk products is used to trigger integer overflow vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to code execution.
  3. CVE-2023-29068 - A maliciously crafted file consumed through pskernel.dll file could lead to memory corruption vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities 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® Maya

2023, 2022 

2023.3, 2022.5

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® AutoCAD

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 

2023.1.1, 2022.1.3,
2021.1.3, 2020.1.6

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® AutoCAD® Architecture

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 

2023.1.1, 2022.1.3,
2021.1.3, 2020.1.6

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® AutoCAD® Electrical

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 

2023.1.1, 2022.1.3,
2021.1.3, 2020.1.6

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® AutoCAD® Map 3D

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 

2023.1.1, 2022.1.3,
2021.1.3, 2020.1.6

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® AutoCAD® Mechanical

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 

2023.1.1, 2022.1.3,
2021.1.3, 2020.1.6

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® AutoCAD® MEP

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 

2023.1.1, 2022.1.3,
2021.1.3, 2020.1.6

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® AutoCAD® Plant 3D

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 

2023.1.1, 2022.1.3,
2021.1.3, 2020.1.6

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® AutoCAD® LT

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 

2023.1.1, 2022.1.3,
2021.1.3, 2020.1.6

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® Civil 3D®

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 

2023.1.1, 2022.1.3,
2021.1.3, 2020.1.6

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® Advance Steel

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 

2023.1.1, 2022.1.3,
2021.1.3, 2020.1.6

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® Navisworks

2023, 2022 

2023.2, 2022.4

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® Infraworks

2023, 2022, 2021 

2023.1, 2022.1,
2021.2

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® Alias

2023 

2023.1.1

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® VRED

2023 

2023.4

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® Inventor

2023, 2022, 2021

2023.3.1, 2022.4, 2021.5

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

Autodesk® Revit

2021

2021.1.8

Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

*Note: Product list table contents subject to change.

Recommendations

Autodesk strongly recommends that customers of the affected products obtain and apply the latest updates via Autodesk Access 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 for reporting the relevant issues and for working with Autodesk to help protect our customers:

  • Js0huang and Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for reporting CVE-2023-25003, CVE-2023-25004

Related Information

More information on related security advisories can be found on the Autodesk Trust Center.

Revision History

Revision

Date

Description

1.0

4/23/2023

Initial Release of Security advisory

1.1

5/18/2023

Adding product update for Revit update

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