CVE-2009-1743

CRITICAL 9.3CVE-2009-1743 · Published 21/05/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-1743 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability affecting pinnacle studio (pinnaclesys).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.2%, higher than 93.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pinnacle studio pinnaclesys	`= 12`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in InstallHFZ.exe 6.5.201.0 in Pinnacle Hollywood Effects 6, a module in Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Studio 12, allows remote attackers to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a filename containing a ..\ (dot dot backslash) sequence in a Hollywood FX Compressed Archive (.hfz) file. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by decompressing a file to a Startup folder. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

osvdb.org/54430
retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_pinnacle_studio_12_hfz.htm · Exploit
secunia.com/advisories/35078 · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/archive/1/503476/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/34936 · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50510
exploit-db.com/exploits/8670

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