Path Traversal in Pinnaclesys Pinnacle Hollywood Effects

CVE-2009-1743

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.062 (92.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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