🛡️ CVE-2019-17221 — phantomjs

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-552 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

PhantomJS Arbitrary File Read

PhantomJS through 2.1.1 has an arbitrary file read vulnerability, as demonstrated by an XMLHttpRequest for a file:// URI. The vulnerability exists in the page.open() function of the webpage module, which loads a specified URL and calls a given callback. An attacker can supply a specially crafted HTML file, as user input, that allows reading arbitrary files on the filesystem. For example, if page.render() is the function callback, this generates a PDF or an image of the targeted file. NOTE: this product is no longer developed.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2019-17221 is classified as CWE-552: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties. Files intended to stay internal are reachable from outside the application.

Affected software

CVE-2019-17221 is recorded against 1 package.

  • phantomjs

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
web.archive.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-552
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
phantomjs — —

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