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Vulnerabilities in Autodesk® AutoCAD and Design Review Products

Autodesk ID: ADSK-SA-2019-0002

Product, Service, Component: Autodesk® AutoCAD; AutoCAD LT; AutoCAD P&ID; Advance Steel; Civil 3D; Design Review

Impact: DLL preloading; Use-after-free

Severity: High

Original Publish: 16/08/2019

Last Revised: 04/10/2019

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

Multiple Autodesk products have been affected by DLL preloading and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Description

The details of the vulnerabilities are as follows:

  1. CVE-2019-7362: An attacker may trick a user into opening a malicious DWF file that may leverage a DLL preloading vulnerability in Autodesk Design Review which may result in code execution.

  2. CVE-2019-7363: An attacker may trick a user into opening a malicious DWF file that may leverage a use-after-free vulnerability in Autodesk Design Review which may result in code execution.

  3. CVE-2019-7364: An attacker may trick a user into opening a malicious DWG file that may leverage a DLL preloading vulnerability in AutoCAD which may result in code execution.

Affected Products

Item: Autodesk Design Review

Impacted Versions: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018

Mitigated Versions: 2018 (Users of Ver. 2011, Ver. 2012, or Ver. 2013 are required to upgrade to Ver. 2018 and then install the Security Hotfix)

Update Source:

Autodesk Design Review 2018 Hotfix

 

Item: Autodesk Advance Steel

Impacted Versions: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Mitigated Versions: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Update Source:

Autodesk Desktop App, or Accounts Portal

 

Item: Autodesk Civil 3D

Impacted Versions: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Mitigated Versions: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Update Source:

Autodesk Desktop App, or Accounts Portal

 

Item: Autodesk AutoCAD

Impacted Versions: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Mitigated Versions: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Update Source:

Autodesk Desktop App, or Accounts Portal

 

Item: Autodesk AutoCAD LT

Impacted Versions: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Mitigated Versions: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Update Source:

Autodesk Desktop App, or Accounts Portal

 

Item: Autodesk AutoCAD P&ID

Impacted Versions: 2017

Mitigated Versions: 2017

Update Source:

Autodesk Desktop App, or Accounts Portal

 

Item: Autodesk AutoCAD Utility Design

Impacted Versions: 2017

Mitigated Versions: 2017

Update Source:

Autodesk Desktop App, or Accounts Portal

 

Item: Autodesk AutoCAD based specialized toolsets including: AutoCAD Architecture; AutoCAD Electrical; AutoCAD Map 3D; AutoCAD Mechanical; AutoCAD MEP; AutoCAD Plant 3D.

Impacted Versions: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Mitigated Versions: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Update Source:

Autodesk Desktop App, or Accounts Portal

Recommendations

Autodesk strongly recommends the following actions:

  • Users of Autodesk Design Review 2018 download and install the security hotfix. Customers of Autodesk® Design Review 2011, 2012, or 2013 will need to upgrade to version 2018 and then download and install the hotfix.

  • Users of the 2017, 2018, and 2019 versions of Autodesk Advance Steel, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, and AutoCAD-based specialized toolsets listed in the table above should apply the latest Security Patch for their products and versions via the Autodesk Desktop App, or the Accounts Portal.

  • Users of the 2020 version of Autodesk Advance Steel, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, and AutoCAD-based specialized toolsets listed in the table above should install the recently released AutoCAD/AutoCAD LT 2020.1 Update via the Autodesk Desktop App, or the Accounts Portal.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank @j00sean (https://twitter.com/j00sean) working with iDefense Labs for reporting CVE-2019-7362, CVE-2019-7363, and CVE-2019-7364.

Related Information

The following CVE’s have been reserved as a result of the remediation activities. Details regarding each CVE are available here: https://cve.mitre.org

  • CVE-2019-7362: DLL preloading vulnerability in Autodesk Design Review.

  • CVE-2019-7363: Use-after-free vulnerability in Autodesk Design Review.

  • CVE-2019-7364: DLL preloading vulnerability in Autodesk AutoCAD.

Revision History

Revision: 1.0

Date: 16/08/2019

Description: Initial Release

 

Revision: 1.1

Date: 04/10/2019

Description: Autodesk AutoCAD Utility Design added to Affected Products list

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