Fortinet Discovers AutoDesk Moldflow Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a Memory Corruption vulnerability in Autodesk Moldflow Products.

Autodesk Moldflow software helps improve collaboration with manufacturing personnel, procurement engineers, suppliers, and external customers. The viewer works directly with Moldflow result files so stakeholders can more easily visualize, quantify, and compare simulation results.

A memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered in AutoDesk Moldflow Products by FortiGuard Labs. The vulnerability is caused by a crafted MFR file which causes an out-of-bounds memory access. It could allow malicious users to create remote code execution scenarios.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

AutoDesk.Moldflow.CVE-2022-33883.Memory.Corruption
Released Jul 21, 2022

Users should apply the solution provided by Autodesk.

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Autodesk on May 21, 2022.

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

References

• https://www.autodesk.com/trust/security-advisories/adsk-sa-2022-0019
• CVE-2022-33883

IPS Subscription

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