GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-x43g-gj9x-838x PhantomJS Arbitrary File Read

HIGH Published 2022-05-24 Modified 2023-10-19 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2019-17221
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
phantomjs
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-552
Reviewed
2023-10-19

Affected packages

• npm phantomjs: <= 2.1.1 (no fix yet)

Description

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2019-17221 PhantomJS through 2.1.1 has an arbitrary file read vulnerability, as demonstrated by an XMLHttpRequest for a file:// URI. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-552 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties weakness

References