CVE-2021-40159: Autodesk Advance Steel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An Information Disclosure vulnerability for JT files in Autodesk Inventor 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 in conjunction with other vulnerabilities may lead to code execution through maliciously crafted JT files in the context of the current process.

Affected products

• Autodesk Advance Steel: from 2022, before 2022.1.2 (fixed in 2022.1.2)
• Autodesk Autocad: from 2022, before 2022.1.2 (fixed in 2022.1.2)
• Autodesk Autocad Architecture: from 2022, before 2022.1.2 (fixed in 2022.1.2)
• Autodesk Autocad Electrical: from 2022, before 2022.1.2 (fixed in 2022.1.2)
• Autodesk Autocad Lt: from 2022, before 2022.1.2 (fixed in 2022.1.2)
• Autodesk Autocad Map 3d: from 2022, before 2022.1.2 (fixed in 2022.1.2)
• Autodesk Autocad Mechanical: from 2022, before 2022.1.2 (fixed in 2022.1.2)
• Autodesk Autocad Mep: from 2022, before 2022.1.2 (fixed in 2022.1.2)
• Autodesk Autocad Plant 3d: from 2022, before 2022.1.2 (fixed in 2022.1.2)
• Autodesk Civil 3d: from 2022, before 2022.1.2 (fixed in 2022.1.2)
• Autodesk Inventor: version 2019 only; version 2020 only; version 2021 only; version 2022 only

Published 2022-01-25. Last modified 2026-10-08.