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CVE-2019-17221

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-11-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-552

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.

Affected products

• Phantomjs: through 2.1.1

References

• https://www.darkmatter.ae/blogs/breaching-the-perimeter-phantomjs-arbitrary-file-read/
• https://www.darkmatter.ae/blogs/breaching-the-perimeter-phantomjs-arbitrary-file-read/

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