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High, CVSS 7.5amended

PhantomJS Arbitrary File Read

CVE-2019-17221GHSA-x43g-gj9x-838x

What to do

Vendor response not established. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check back for a fix.

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Affected packages

  • npm phantomjs

    Affected
    <= 2.1.1
    Fixed in
    no fixed version recorded

Sources

Severity and exploitation
Exploitation
No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.
CVSS
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
  • CVE-2019-17221: 3.42% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 88.93 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.
Source description

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

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.

Dates and revisions
Published by the source
Last modified by the source
Source last checked
  1. Revision 2 · amended ·

    Amended from ghsa record GHSA-x43g-gj9x-838x

  2. Revision 1 · created ·

    Published from osv record GHSA-x43g-gj9x-838x

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2019-17221

Advisory: PhantomJS Arbitrary File Read
IDs: CVE-2019-17221, GHSA-x43g-gj9x-838x
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2019-17221 (revision 2, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 12:26 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.5)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor response not established. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- npm phantomjs: affected <= 2.1.1

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- `npm ls phantomjs --all`: lists every installed copy and version, including transitive ones. Run in the project root after `npm ci`.

## Supported action
No complete vendor fix is recorded. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check this record again before closing anything.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on phantomjs.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-x43g-gj9x-838x (OSV record GHSA-x43g-gj9x-838x lists affected ranges: npm phantomjs >=0 <=2.1.1)
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x43g-gj9x-838x (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-x43g-gj9x-838x lists affected ranges: npm phantomjs >=0 <=2.1.1)

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