Higher residuosity problem, but with a known factorization

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Given

  • two large primes $p$ and $q$,
  • two arbitrary odd integers $a$ and $b$,
  • $x \in Z_{n^2}^*$ where $n$ = $pq$,

find whether there exists numbers $c$ and $d$ that are distinct elements in $Z_{n^2} \setminus \{0,1\}$ such that $x = c^a.d^b \mod n^2$

I assume the problem is called higher residuosity problem if we ignore $b$ and $d$ and is easy to solve given the factorization?