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…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 6.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Autodesk DWF Viewer Control / LiveUpdate Module - Remote Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 6630remote, windowspublished 30 Sept 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 6630 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.7% · top 6.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 6630 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 4361 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_autodesk_revit_arch_2009_exploit.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- designreview-adview-file-overwrite(45519) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 31487 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2704 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20080930 Autodesk DWF Viewer Control / LiveUpdate Module remote code execution exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 31989 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-4452 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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