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Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the Autodesk® Installer Software

Autodesk ID: ADSK-SA-2023-0010
Product, Service, Component: Autodesk® Installer
Impact: Privilege Escalation
Severity: High
Original Publish: 4/25/2023
Last Revised: 4/25/2023

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

Applications and services utilizing the Autodesk installer have been affected by a Privilege Escalation vulnerability.

Description

The details of the vulnerabilities are as follows:

1) CVE-2023-27908 - A maliciously crafted DLL file can be forced to write beyond allocated boundaries in the Autodesk installer when parsing the DLL files and could lead to a Privilege Escalation vulnerability.

Affected Products

Item	Impacted Versions	Mitigated Versions	Update Source
Autodesk® Installer	1.29.0.90 or later, included with 2023 and 2024 product installs	1.39.0.216	direct download

*Note: Product list table contents are subject to change.

Recommendations

Autodesk strongly recommends that users of the Autodesk Installer download and install the security hotfix referenced above via direct download.

Customers do not need to uninstall or reinstall their products. Customers should update existing deployment images with the latest installer or install the latest installer prior to running an impacted version.

Acknowledgements

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

Filip Dragovi\xc4\x87 working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for reporting CVE-2023-27906

Revision History

Revision	Date	Description
1.0	4/25/2023	Initial Release of Security advisory

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