CVE-2022-41181 Denial of service in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author

Medium 5.5 Published 11 Oct 2022 Updated 3 Aug 2024

An attacker can cause a denial of service by tricking a user into opening a malicious PDF file in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2022-41181?

CVE-2022-41181 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author, published on 11 Oct 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Due to lack of proper memory management, when a victim opens manipulated Portable Document Format (.pdf, PDFPublishing.dll) file received from untrusted sources in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author - version 9, it is possible for the application to crash and becomes temporarily unavailable to the user until restart of the application.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-41181?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sap 3d Visual Enterprise Author.

How do I fix CVE-2022-41181?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-41181 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-41181 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-41181 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-vhr6-32q6-wwvf.