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Critical · 10.0 CVE-2023-24813 EUVD-2023-0628GHSA-56gj-mvh6-rp75

URI validation failure on SVG parsing. Bypass of CVE-2023-23924

Published Feb 7, 2023 · Updated Mar 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter written in php. Due to the difference in the attribute parser of Dompdf and php-svg-lib, an attacker can still call arbitrary URLs with arbitrary protocols. Dompdf parses the href attribute of `image` tags and respects `xlink:href` even if `href` is specified. However, php-svg-lib, which is later used to parse the svg file, parses the href attribute. Since `href` is respected if both `xlink:href` and `href` is specified, it's possible to bypass the protection on the Dompdf side by providing an empty `xlink:href` attribute. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to call arbitrary URLs with arbitrary protocols if they provide an SVG file to the Dompdf. In PHP versions before 8.0.0, it leads to arbitrary unserialize, which will lead, at the very least, to arbitrary file deletion and might lead to remote code execution, depending on available classes. This vulnerability has been addressed in commit `95009ea98` which has been included in release version 2.0.3. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
dompdf dompdf = 2.0.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 12 php-dompdf 2.0.3+dfsg-1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist dompdf/dompdf >= 2.0.2, < 2.0.3 2.0.3 GHSA-56gj-mvh6-rp75

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