CVE-2014-100015

medium

Published 2015-01-13 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.4

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in pdmwService.exe in SolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2014 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the filename in a file upload.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-32163 remote windows verified

Metasploit · 2014-03-10

SolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2014 - 'pdmwService.exe' Arbitrary File Write (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-31831 remote windows verified

Mohamed Shetta · 2014-02-22

SolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2014 SP2 - Arbitrary File Write

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/misc/solidworks_workgroup_pdmwservice_file_write rank 400

SolidWorks Workgroup PDM 2014 pdmwService.exe Arbitrary File Write

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
solidworks	product_data_management	`2014`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.