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CVE-2021-27032

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-05-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-276

Description

Autodesk Licensing Installer was found to be vulnerable to privilege escalation issues. A malicious user with limited privileges could run any number of tools on a system to identify services that are configured with weak permissions and are running under elevated privileges. These weak permissions could allow all users on the operating system to modify the service configuration and take ownership of the service.

Affected products

• Autodesk Licensing Installer: 9.0.1.1462.100

References

• https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/downloads/content/autodesk-licensing-service-download.html
• https://www.autodesk.com/trust/security-advisories/adsk-sa-2021-0002
• https://www.autodesk.com/trust/security-advisories/adsk-sa-2021-0002%3B
• https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/downloads/content/autodesk-licensing-service-download.html
• https://www.autodesk.com/trust/security-advisories/adsk-sa-2021-0002
• https://www.autodesk.com/trust/security-advisories/adsk-sa-2021-0002%3B

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