CVE-2026-7406: BMP File Parsing Untrusted Pointer Dereference in certain Autodesk products

6

Low

Who exploits it and how urgent it is

A 0–100 score combining confirmed exploitation, ransomware and APT use, public exploits, EPSS and severity.

No exploitation signal in the sources consulted so far.

How the score was calculated

Technical severity (high)+6

The score orders the patch queue; it does not replace your asset context (internet exposure, criticality, compensating controls).

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the sources call it.

Exploitation

Not confirmed

Not in CISA KEV — an absence of record, not proof it is unexploited.

EPSS FIRST

—

No EPSS score.

Affects

Autodesk

Advance Steel and 11 more

CVSS base

7.8

High · 2 source(s)

CISA SSVC assessment CISA

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses (SSVC 2.0.3). A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

No

can an attacker script the kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Total

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Remediation

Fixes and mitigations documented by the sources — linked to the original advisory.

No fix documented by the sources we poll. That does not mean none exists: check the vendor advisory.

First 24 hours

Ordered from the record’s own fields — exposure first, because you cannot patch what you have not found. A rule-generated starting point.

Identify exposed assets running the affected vendor/product/version combinations (Autodesk Advance Steel, Autodesk Autocad, Autodesk Autocad Architecture…).
No fix documented in the sources: reduce exposure and monitor the vendor advisory.
Exploitation requires user interaction: tighten email/web filtering and warn affected users.
Search available logs for exploit probes matching the vulnerability class (memory corruption), errors and authentication anomalies.

Affected scope

Vendor, product and versions as the sources word them.

Vendor	Product	Versions	Status	Source
Autodesk	Advance Steel	≥ 2027 and < 2027.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Autodesk	Autocad	≥ 2027 and < 2027.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Autodesk	Autocad	≥ 2027.0.0 and < 2027.1.0≥ 2026.0.0 and < 2026.1.2	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
Autodesk	Autocad Architecture	≥ 2027 and < 2027.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Autodesk	Autocad Electrical	≥ 2027 and < 2027.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Autodesk	Autocad Lt	≥ 2027 and < 2027.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Autodesk	Autocad Lt	≥ 2027.0.0 and < 2027.1.0≥ 2026.0.0 and < 2026.1.2	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
Autodesk	Autocad Map 3d	≥ 2027 and < 2027.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Autodesk	Autocad Mechanical	≥ 2027 and < 2027.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Autodesk	Autocad Mep	≥ 2027 and < 2027.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Autodesk	Autocad Plant 3d	≥ 2027 and < 2027.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Autodesk	Civil 3d	≥ 2027 and < 2027.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Autodesk	Dwg Trueview	≥ 2027 and < 2027.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Autodesk	Dwg Trueview	≥ 2027.0.0 and < 2027.1.0≥ 2026.0.0 and < 2026.1.2	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
Autodesk	Revit	≥ 2025 and < 2025.3.5≥ 2026 and < 2026.5≥ 2027 and < 2027.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Autodesk	Revit	≥ 2027.0.0 and < 2027.1.0≥ 2026.0.0 and < 2026.5.0≥ 2025.0.0 and < 2025.5.0≥ 2024.0.0 and < 2024.3.5	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP

Attack characteristics

The CVSS vector, decoded. It describes the attack, not your exposure to it.

Attack vector

Local

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and may disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

Score	Version	Severity	Expl.	Impact	Scored by
7.8	CVSS 3.1	High	1.8	5.9	psirt@autodesk.com via NIST National Vulnerability Database
7.8	CVSS 3.1	High	—	—	autodesk via CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H (score shown at the top: psirt@autodesk.com)

Weakness MITRE

Weakness class according to MITRE’s CWE catalog.

CWE-822 · Untrusted Pointer Dereference

Other CVEs with this weakness →

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not tested rules.

Local/physical vector: focus on endpoint telemetry (EDR) from affected hosts.
Correlate service crashes/restarts with inbound traffic; repeated crashes may indicate attempts.

endpoint telemetry (EDR)crash dumps

Timeline

What happened to this CVE, newest first.

2026
Affected products added · autodesk/revit, autodesk/autocad, autodesk/autocad lt, autodesk/dwg trueview
Oct 15, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
SSVC assessment updated
Oct 15, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
Record published
Oct 15, 2026
CVSS changed · 7.8
Oct 15, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
Source status changed · → Analyzed
Oct 15, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
Record created in this database
Oct 15, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
CVE published
Aug 6, 2026 · autodesk

Source activity

Repeated readings are counted rather than listed.

1× Official description updated · Oct 15, 2026 – Oct 15, 2026

References

2 on the record

www.autodesk.com/trust/security-advisories/adsk-sa-2026-0012
Vendor Advisory, vendor-advisory, NIST National Vulnerability Database
www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-access/overview
Product, patch, NIST National Vulnerability Database

Elsewhere on this site

Autodesk
every CVE for this vendor

Memory corruption
same class

CWE-822
other pages naming this weakness

Related CVEs (same products)

High CVE-2026-8325 PDF File Parsing Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability in Certain Autodesk Desktop Products Aug 6, 2026
Medium CVE-2026-7405 TIF File Parsing Out-of-Bounds Read in certain Autodesk products Aug 6, 2026
High CVE-2026-1289 PDF File Parsing Vulnerabilities in Certain Autodesk Desktop Products Aug 6, 2026
High CVE-2026-11803 Out-of-bounds Read in Autodesk Revit Aug 6, 2026
Medium CVE-2026-17550 DWG or DXF File Parsing Out-of-Bounds Read in Autodesk AutoCAD Jul 29, 2026
High CVE-2026-16463 DXF File Parsing Heap-Based Overflow in Autodesk AutoCAD Jul 29, 2026

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

No FIRST EPSS score.
No fixed version, patch or mitigation documented.
No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.

Answered from this record

Text assembled only from the fields above — no additional claims.

What should defenders know first?

CVE-2026-7406 is "BMP File Parsing Untrusted Pointer Dereference in certain Autodesk products", rated High. It affects Advance Steel (Autodesk); versions are in the scope table. It is not in CISA KEV, which does not rule out exploitation. CVSS 7.8 describes technical severity. First verify whether exposed or business-critical assets run the affected versions, apply vendor fixes or mitigations, and preserve logs for review.

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