CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4471
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the CExpressViewerControl class in the DWF Viewer ActiveX control (AdView.dll 9.0.0.96), as used in Revit Architecture 2009 SP2 and Autodesk Design Review 2009, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via "..\" sequences in the argument to the SaveAS method.
Affected configurations
• autodesk design review 2009
• autodesk dwf viewer
• autodesk revit architecture 2009
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_autodesk_revit_arch_2009_exploit.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31989 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4361 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496847/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31487 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2704 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45519 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6630 www.exploit-db.com
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_autodesk_revit_arch_2009_exploit.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31989 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4361 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496847/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31487 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2704 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45519 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6630 www.exploit-db.com