# CVE-2021-43274: A Use After Free Vulnerability exists in the Open Design Alliance Drawings SDK before 2022.11.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-11-14 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

A Use After Free Vulnerability exists in the Open Design Alliance Drawings SDK before 2022.11. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of DWF files. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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

## References

- https://www.opendesign.com/security-advisories

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