UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17221

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17221

    Published: 5 Nov 2019Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-17221

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-17221, https://www.darkmatter.ae/blogs/breaching-the-perimeter-phantomjs-arbitrary-file-read/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17221

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: phantomjs

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.9.0-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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