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CVE-2009-1743

N/A

Published: May 21, 2009 at 12:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:07 PM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorPinnacle StudioPinnacle Hollywood Effects

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 6%

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in InstallHFZ.exe 6.5.201.0 in Pinnacle Hollywood Effects 6, a module in Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Studio 12, allows remote attackers to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a filename containing a ..\ (dot dot backslash) sequence in a Hollywood FX Compressed Archive (.hfz) file. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by decompressing a file to a Startup folder. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Pinnacle Studio · Pinnaclesys

95%

pinnaclesys-pinnacle-hollywood-effects (environment)

Pinnacle Hollywood Effects · Pinnaclesysdevice

80%

All versions

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

http://secunia.com/advisories/35078

References (7)

VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Source: [email protected]

http://osvdb.org/54430

x_refsource_MISCExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_pinnacle_studio_12_hfz.htm

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/35078

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503476/100/0/threaded

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34936

VDB Entryx_refsource_XF

Source: [email protected]

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50510

Exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Source: [email protected]

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8670

CVSS

9.3HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: COMPLETE
Integrity: COMPLETE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-22

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