CVE-2026-114609 (GCVE-0-2026-114609)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-22 17:18 – Updated: 2026-10-22 17:18
VLAI
Title
fpdf2 implicitly loads external URLs and local image paths when rendering attacker-controlled content
Summary
fpdf2 is a PDF creation library for Python. Prior to 2.8.8, fpdf2's shared image loader automatically dereferences attacker-controlled HTTP(S) URLs and raw local paths supplied through FPDF.image(), FPDF.write_html() HTML <img src> values, SVG <image href> or xlink:href values, and template image fields. This can cause outbound requests to attacker-selected internal or external services and local file open attempts, although local content is exposed only when it is a valid supported image or SVG resource. file:// URLs are not specially handled, so the local-path case requires a raw filesystem path. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.8.
Severity
5.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7734 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
py-pdf fpdf2 Affected: < 2.8.8
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