Resource Exhaustion Affecting php-dompdf package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.64% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-PHPDOMPDF-18391850
  • published29 Jul 2026
  • disclosed28 Jul 2026

Introduced: 28 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-59941  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:unstable php-dompdf.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php-dompdf package and not the php-dompdf package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter for PHP. Versions 3.15 and prior accept a BMP image and generates a PDF-compatible PNG based only on its declared header dimensions and never bounds width × height before the image is converted through GD. A 58-byte BMP whose header declares e.g. 6000×6000 is accepted and later drives imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height) (and PHP's native BMP decoder) to allocate the full pixel canvas. A payload can fit in a single HTTP request: the BMP can be inlined as a data:image/bmp;base64,… URI inside attacker-controlled HTML, so no upload, no remote fetch, and no chroot-reachable file is required. I measured a 169-byte request driving a dompdf render to ~412 MB peak RSS and ~4.8 s of CPU/wall time, versus ~34 MB for an identically-sized benign request — roughly a 12× memory amplification per request, repeatable and unauthenticated. This issue has been fixed in version 3.16.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1