CVE-2023-23924 (GCVE-0-2023-23924)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-31 23:54 – Updated: 2025-03-10 21:17
VLAI
Title
URI validation failure on SVG parsing in Dompdf
Summary
Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. The URI validation on dompdf 2.0.1 can be bypassed on SVG parsing by passing `<image>` tags with uppercase letters. This may lead to arbitrary object unserialize on PHP < 8, through the `phar` URL wrapper. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to call arbitrary URL with arbitrary protocols, if they can provide a SVG file to dompdf. In PHP versions before 8.0.0, it leads to arbitrary unserialize, that will lead to the very least to an arbitrary file deletion and even remote code execution, depending on classes that are available.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-10 21:02 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-551 - Incorrect Behavior Order: Authorization Before Parsing and Canonicalization
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7904 records in the last 180 days details
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
dompdf dompdf Affected: < 2.0.2
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