CVE-2019-17221

HIGH

PhantomJS < 2.1.1 - Arbitrary File Read via XMLHttpRequest for file:// URI

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2019-17221. PoCs published by h4ckologic.

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.

Exploits (1)

nomisec NO CODE 8 stars
by h4ckologic · poc
https://github.com/h4ckologic/CVE-2019-17221

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.1360
EPSS Percentile 94.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-552
Status published
Products (2)
npm/phantomjs 0npm
phantomjs/phantomjs < 2.1.1
Published Nov 05, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026