THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2009-2169
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2009-2169

Pdf Viewer Component vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
4.5%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
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 vendor
Edraw
Affected product
Pdf Viewer Component
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2009-06-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2009-2169

  • Confirm whether Edraw Pdf Viewer Component is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2009-2169.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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