RCE in Edraw Pdf Viewer Component

CVE-2009-2169

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.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.045 (90.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_FULLDISC)