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.
{
"nvd_published_at": "2019-11-05T14:15:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH",
"github_reviewed": true,
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-552"
],
"github_reviewed_at": "2023-10-19T18:55:53Z"
}