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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-49286 EUVD-2026-38053GHSA-2fmj-p74r-3wjm

PhpWeasyPrint vulnerable to PHAR deserialization via output filename (CVE-2023-28115 case-insensitive bypass)

Published Jun 19, 2026 · Updated Jun 22, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

PhpWeasyPrint is a PHP library allowing PDF generation from a URL or an HTML page. Prior to version 2.6.0, `pontedilana/php-weasyprint` guarded the output filename against the `phar://` stream wrapper with a case-sensitive blacklist. PHP stream wrappers are case-insensitive, so `PHAR://`, `Phar://`, etc. bypass the check and reach `fileExists()` (`file_exists()`) in `prepareOutput()`. On PHP 7 (which the library still supports — PHP 7.4+), this triggers deserialization of a crafted PHAR archive's metadata, leading to remote code execution. This is the patch-bypass of CVE-2023-28115. The same issue and fix were handled upstream in KnpLabs/snappy (GHSA-92rv-4j2h-8mjj). PhpWeasyPrint version 2.6.0 contains a patch for the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pontedilana php-weasyprint < 2.6.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist pontedilana/php-weasyprint < 2.6.0 2.6.0 GHSA-2fmj-p74r-3wjm

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