# Privilege Ecalation due to Untrusted Search Path Vulnerability

CVE record · `CVE-2025-5039`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-5039`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.8 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** autodesk
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-426](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-426](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-426.md)
- **Technologies:** [Autodesk AutoCAD](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/autodesk-autocad.md) · [Autodesk AutoCAD LT](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/autodesk-autocad-lt.md) · [Autodesk RealDWG](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/autodesk-realdwg.md) · [Autodesk 3ds Max](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/autodesk-3ds-max.md)
- **Published:** 24 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 28 May 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: autodesk) at 24 Jul 2025, 17:11 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Autodesk. Product: AutoCAD.
  - affected: `2026 to before 2026.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Autodesk. Product: AutoCAD LT.
  - affected: `2026 to before 2026.1` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Autodesk. Product: RealDWG.
  - affected: `2026 to before 2026.0.2` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Autodesk. Product: 3ds Max.
  - affected: `2027 to before 2027.1` (custom)
  - affected: `2026 to before 2026.3.3` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.8 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from CNA (autodesk)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0021, the 10th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 24 Jul 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-5039](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5039)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-5039](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5039)

### References from the CNA

- <https://www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-access/overview> (patch)
- <https://www.autodesk.com/trust/security-advisories/adsk-sa-2025-0014> (vendor-advisory)

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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