CVE-2008-4472

highpriority · attend · 50EPSS 0.078 · 95 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

7.84% (95th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The UpdateEngine class in the LiveUpdate ActiveX control (LiveUpdate16.DLL 17.2.56), as used in Revit Architecture 2009 SP2 and Autodesk Design Review 2009, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via the second argument to the ApplyPatch method.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v2.08.4highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-6630Autodesk DWF Viewer Control / LiveUpdate Module - Remote Code Executionfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
autodesk design review= 2009nvdUScpe:2.3:a:autodesk:design_review:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
autodesk dwf viewerall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:autodesk:dwf_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
autodesk revit architecture= 2009nvdUScpe:2.3:a:autodesk:revit_architecture:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-10-07modified 2026-06-16

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references (18)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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