CVE-2019-17221: Phantomjs

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Phantomjs Phantomjs: up to and including 2.1.1

Published 2019-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.