High severity · published Jun 25, 2021
CVE-2021-27043
An Arbitrary Address Write issue in the Autodesk DWG application can allow a malicious user to leverage the application to write in unexpected paths
7.8
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An Arbitrary Address Write issue in the Autodesk DWG application can allow a malicious user to leverage the application to write in unexpected paths. In order to exploit this the attacker would need the victim to enable full page heap in the application.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 59% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AS
Advance Steel · Autodesk
2019 before 2019.1.3; 2020 before 2020.1.4; 2021 before 2021.1.1; 2022 before 2022.0.1 · source: NVD
AU
Autocad · Autodesk
2019 before 2019.1.3; 2020 before 2020.1.4; 2021 before 2021.1.1; 2022 before 2022.0.1 · source: NVD
AA
Autocad Architecture · Autodesk
2019 before 2019.1.3; 2020 before 2020.1.4; 2021 before 2021.1.1; 2022 through 2022.0.1 · source: NVD
AE
Autocad Electrical · Autodesk
2019 before 2019.1.3; 2020 before 2020.1.4; 2021 before 2021.1.1; 2022 before 2022.0.1 · source: NVD
AL
Autocad LT · Autodesk
2019 before 2019.1.3; 2020 before 2020.1.4; 2021 before 2021.1.1; 2022 before 2022.0.1 · source: NVD
AM
Autocad Map 3d · Autodesk
2019 before 2019.1.3; 2020 before 2020.1.4; 2021 before 2021.1.1; 2022 before 2022.0.1 · source: NVD
AM
Autocad Mechanical · Autodesk
2019 before 2019.1.3; 2020 before 2020.1.4; 2021 before 2021.1.1; 2022 before 2022.0.1 · source: NVD
AM
Autocad Mep · Autodesk
2019 before 2019.1.3; 2020 before 2020.1.4; 2021 before 2021.1.1; 2022 before 2022.0.1 · source: NVD
AP
Autocad Plant 3d · Autodesk
2019 before 2019.1.3; 2020 before 2020.1.4; 2021 before 2021.1.1; 2022 before 2022.0.1 · source: NVD
C3
Civil 3d · Autodesk
2019 before 2019.1.3; 2020 before 2020.1.4; 2021 before 2021.1.1; 2022 before 2022.0.1 · source: NVD
DT
Dwg Trueview · Autodesk
2022 before 2022.1.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27043
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-27043
Vendor Advisory
https://www.autodesk.com/trust/security-advisories/adsk-sa-2022-0007
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