CVE-2009-2169 - Insecure method vulnerability in the PDFVIEWER.PDFViewerCtrl.1 ActiveX control (pdfviewer.ocx) in Edraw PDF Viewer Component before 3.2.0.126 allows remote attackers to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a URL argument to the FtpConnect argument and a target filename argument to the FtpDownloadFile method

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Insecure method vulnerability in the PDFVIEWER.PDFViewerCtrl.1 ActiveX control (pdfviewer.ocx) in Edraw PDF Viewer Component before 3.2.0.126 allows remote attackers to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a URL argument to the FtpConnect argument and a target filename argument to the FtpDownloadFile method

Published Jun 22, 2009

9.3

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 4.50%

Description

Insecure method vulnerability in the PDFVIEWER.PDFViewerCtrl.1 ActiveX control (pdfviewer.ocx) in Edraw PDF Viewer Component before 3.2.0.126 allows remote attackers to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a URL argument to the FtpConnect argument and a target filename argument to the FtpDownloadFile method. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-94

Code Injection

References (2)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-06/0198.html
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
http://secunia.com/advisories/35509
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-06/0198.html		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
http://secunia.com/advisories/35509		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 22, 2009

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Jun 22, 2009

Link CVE-2009-2169

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2009-2169

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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