CVE-2009-2169: Edraw PDF Viewer Component

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Edraw PDF Viewer Component: up to and including 3.2.0

Published 2009-06-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.