CVE-2008-4471: Autodesk Design Review

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Autodesk Design Review: version 2009 only
• Autodesk Dwf Viewer: any version
• Autodesk Revit Architecture: version 2009 only

Published 2008-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.