Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-4471

Title: Autodesk Design Review Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-4471

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Oct 07, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.73%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-4471: Directory traversal vulnerability in the CExpressViewerControl class in the DWF Viewer ActiveX control (AdView.dll 9.0.0.96), as used in Revit Architecture 2009 SP2 and Autodesk Design Review 2009, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via "..\" sequences in the argument to the SaveAS method.

Impacted Vendors

autodesk 3

Reference Links

http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_autodesk_revit_arch_2009_exploit.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31989 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4361 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496847/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31487 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2704 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45519 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6630 http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_autodesk_revit_arch_2009_exploit.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31989 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4361 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496847/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31487 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2704 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45519 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6630

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-4471 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6630

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 07, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.