Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers AutoDesk Subassembly Composer Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a Memory Corruption vulnerability in Autodesk Subassembly Composer.


Autodesk Subassembly Composer is a critical component of AutoDesk Civil3D product suite. It provides an interface for composing and modifying complex subassemblies, without a need for programming.


A memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered in AutoDesk Subassembly Composer by FortiGuard Labs. The vulnerability is caused by a crafted PKT 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.Subassembly.Composer.CVE-2022-41301.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.

Autodesk confirmed the vulnerability on July 15, 2022.

AutoDesk patched the vulnerability on September 29, 2022.

References

Acknowledgement

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

IPS Subscription

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