CVE-2023-5179: Opendesign Drawings SDK

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Open Design Alliance Drawings SDK before 2024.10. A corrupted value for the start of MiniFat sector in a crafted DGN file leads to an out-of-bounds read. This can allow attackers to cause a crash, potentially enabling a denial-of-service attack (Crash, Exit, or Restart) or possible code execution.

Affected products

• Opendesign Drawings SDK: before 2024.10 (fixed in 2024.10)

Published 2023-11-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.