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CVE-2021-40157 (GCVE-0-2021-40157)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-15 14:11 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:27
VLAI
Summary
A user may be tricked into opening a malicious FBX file which may exploit an Untrusted Pointer Dereference vulnerability in FBX’s Review version 1.5.0 and prior causing it to run arbitrary code on the system.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Untrusted Pointer Dereference vulnerability
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Autodesk FBX Review Affected: All versions prior to version to 1.5.0
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