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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS14NDNnLWdqOXgtODM4eM4AAq96

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x43g-gj9x-838x
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: over 2 years ago
Updated: about 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-x43g-gj9x-838x, CVE-2019-17221
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17221
• https://web.archive.org/web/20191220171022/https://www.darkmatter.ae/blogs/breaching-the-perimeter-phantomjs-arbitrary-file-read/
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x43g-gj9x-838x

Blast Radius: 38.8

Affected Packages