Improper Input Validation Affecting spatie/browsershot package, versions <5.0.1
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- published12 Dec 2024
- disclosed11 Dec 2024
- creditMuhammad Firdaus Amran
Introduced: 11 Dec 2024
NewCVE-2024-21544 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade spatie/browsershot to version 5.0.1 or higher.
Overview
spatie/browsershot is a library for converting a webpage to an image or pdf using headless Chrome.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation due to improper URL validation through the setUrl method.
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by using leading whitespace (%20) before the file:// protocol, resulting in Local File Inclusion, which allows the attacker to read sensitive files on the server.
PoC
http://localhost:5865/test.php?input=%20file:///etc/passwd