CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2021-27037 — Autodesk Design Review security vulnerability
A maliciously crafted PNG, PDF or DWF file in Autodesk Design Review 2018, 2017, 2013, 2012, 2011 can be used to attempt to free an object that has already been freed while parsing them. This vulnerability may be exploited by remote malicious actors to execute arbitrary code.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2021-07-09
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Affected products
- autodesk / design_review / 2011
- autodesk / design_review / 2012
- autodesk / design_review / 2013
- autodesk / design_review / 2017
- autodesk / design_review / 2018
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Matched remediation archetype
Use-after-free, double free, and expired resource use
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Check exposure
- Trace ownership, references, callbacks, asynchronous tasks, and teardown paths around the affected object or resource.
- Identify reachable inputs and timing or state transitions that can release the object while references remain.
- Confirm affected builds, allocators, feature flags, architectures, and process privileges.
Remediate safely
- Apply the maintained ownership or lifetime fix and rebuild all artifacts containing the affected native code.
- Use explicit ownership, safe reference management, cancellation and join semantics, and idempotent teardown.
- Add deterministic lifetime tests plus isolated sanitizer and concurrency coverage for shutdown and error paths.
Authoritative sources
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