CVE-2009-2169

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-06-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

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

Edraw Pdf Viewer Component: through 3.2.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-06/0198.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35509
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-06/0198.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35509

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