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Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Autodesk VRED Design


Autodesk ID: ADSK-SA-2024-0022

Product, Service, Component: Autodesk VRED Design

Impact: Untrusted Search Path

Severity: High

Original Publish: 11/5/2024

Last Revised: 11/5/2024 

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 VRED Design is affected by an untrusted search path vulnerability listed below. Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to code execution.   

Description  

The details of this vulnerability is as follows:  

  1. CVE-2024-7995: A maliciously crafted binary file when downloaded could lead to escalation of privileges to NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM due to an untrusted search path being utilized in the VRED Design application. Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to code execution. 

Affected Products

Item: Autodesk VRED Design 

Impacted Versions: 2025 

Mitigated Versions: 2025.2 

Update Source: Autodesk Access or Accounts Portal  

*Note: Product list contents subject to change.  

Recommendations  

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

Acknowledgements

We thank the following researchers for reporting this issue and for working with Autodesk to help protect our customers:  

  • Zain Syed and Khalid Alshehri for reporting CVE-2024-7995 

Revision History 

Revision: 1.0

Date: 11/5/2024

Description: Initial Release of the Security Advisory 


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