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CVE-2009-2169

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 4.50% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2009-06-22 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.3. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It may be remotely exploitable.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
code execution

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CVE
CVE-2009-2169
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
9.3
EPSS
4.50%

Original NVD 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.