High, CVSS 7.5npmAmendedPublished
Arbitrary File Read in html-pdf
CVE-2019-15138 · GHSA-x4w5-r546-x9qh
- Affected
- npm html-pdf < 3.0.1
- Fixed in
- 3.0.1· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- All versions of html-pdf are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read. The package fails to sanitize the HTML input, allowing attackers to exfiltrate server files by supplying malicious HTML code. XHR requests in the HTML code are executed by the server. Input with an XHR request such as request.open("GET","file:///etc/passwd") will result in a PDF document with the contents of /etc/passwd. Recommendation No fix is currently available. There is a mitigation available in the provided reference.
Recommended action: Upgrade to 3.0.1 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.