CVE-2009-2169

CRITICAL 9.3CVE-2009-2169 · Published 22/06/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-2169 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability affecting pdf viewer component (edraw).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.5%, higher than 91.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pdf viewer component edraw	`≤ 3.2.0`	No fix yet

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.

References

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-06/0198.html · Exploit
secunia.com/advisories/35509 · Vendor Advisory

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