Code execution via uninitialized MODEL parser memory
Published Jun 25, 2024 · Updated Aug 27, 2025
Use of uninitialized memory in Autodesk AutoCAD-based products allows remote attackers to execute code via a crafted MODEL file. In ASMkern229A.dll, the MODEL parser accesses memory before properly initializing it, allowing attacker-controlled file data to affect execution. A target must visit a malicious page or open the file; successful exploitation runs code with the application's privileges and can terminate its process.
Summary
What happened
Use of uninitialized memory in Autodesk AutoCAD-based products allows remote attackers to execute code via a crafted MODEL file. In ASMkern229A.dll, the MODEL parser accesses memory before properly initializing it, allowing attacker-controlled file data to affect execution. A target must visit a malicious page or open the file; successful exploitation runs code with the application's privileges and can terminate its process.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-37002
- Published
- Jun 25, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 27, 2025
- Vendor
- Autodesk
- Product
- AutoCAD Mechanical
- Classifications
- CWE-457, CWE-908, CAPEC-100, T1204.002, T1203
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 25, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 27, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2022 <2022.1.5
- Affected versionversion=2023 <2023.1.6
- Affected versionversion=2024 <2024.1.4
- Affected versionversion=2025 <2025.1
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