National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4472
Original release date:10/07/2008
Last revised:08/25/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The UpdateEngine class in the LiveUpdate ActiveX control (LiveUpdate16.DLL 17.2.56), as used in Revit Architecture 2009 SP2 and Autodesk Design Review 2009, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via the second argument to the ApplyPatch method.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: designreview-liveupdate16-unauth-access(45521)
External Source: XF
Name: designreview-liveupdate16-unauth-access(45521)
External Source: BID
Name: 31490
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080930 Autodesk DWF Viewer Control / LiveUpdate Module remote code execution exploit
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 6630
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2704
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=12452198&linkID=11705366
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4361
External Source: MISC
Name: http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_autodesk_revit_arch_2009_exploit.html
External Source: MISC
Name: http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/live_update_hotfix0.html