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PDF Vulnerabilities in Certain Autodesk Desktop Products


Autodesk ID: ADSK-SA-2025-0003

Product, Service, Component: Autodesk Revit

Impact: Memory Corruption, Heap-Based Overflow

Severity: High

Original Publish: 04/15/2025

Last Revised: 04/25/2025

Severity CVSS 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

Autodesk Revit is affected by multiple vulnerabilities listed below. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities can lead to code execution. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities requires user interaction.

Description

The details of the vulnerability are as follows:

  1. CVE-2025-1273: A maliciously crafted PDF file, when linked or imported into Autodesk applications, can force a Heap-Based Overflow vulnerability. A malicious actor can leverage this vulnerability to cause a crash, read sensitive data, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process.

  2. CVE-2025-1656: A maliciously crafted PDF file, when linked or imported into Autodesk applications, can force a Heap-Based Overflow vulnerability. A malicious actor can leverage this vulnerability to cause a crash, read sensitive data, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process.

  3. CVE-2025-1277: A maliciously crafted PDF file, when parsed through Autodesk applications, can force a Memory Corruption vulnerability. A malicious actor can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process.

Affected Products

Item: Autodesk Revit

Impacted Versions: 2025, 2024, 2023

Mitigated Versions: 2025.4.1, 2024.3.2, 2023.1.7

Update Source: Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal

 

*Note: Product list subject to change.

Recommendations

Autodesk highly recommends that users of the affected products install the latest mitigated product versions noted above, as applicable, via Autodesk Access or the Accounts Portal. As a general best practice, we also recommend that users only open files from trusted sources.

Acknowledgements

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

  • Francis Provencher {PRL} for reporting CVE-2025-1277.

  • jony_juice for reporting CVE-2025-1273 and CVE-2025-1656.

Revision History

Revision: 1.0

Date: 04/15/2025

Description: Initial Release of the Security Advisory

 

Revision: 1.1

Date: 04/24/2025

Description: Updated Affected Products

 

Revision: 1.2

Date: 04/25/2025

Description: Updated Affected Products


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