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6.3 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): Present (P)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): Present (P)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
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Dompdf: Uncontrolled resource consumption based on declared BMP dimensions

Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter for PHP. Versions 3.15 and prior accept a BMP image and generates a PDF-compatible PNG based only on its declared header dimensions and never bounds width × height before the image is converted through GD. A 58-byte BMP whose header declares e.g. 6000×6000 is accepted and later drives imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height) (and PHP's native BMP decoder) to allocate the full pixel canvas. A payload can fit in a single HTTP request: the BMP can be inlined as a data:image/bmp;base64,… URI inside attacker-controlled HTML, so no upload, no remote fetch, and no chroot-reachable file is required. I measured a 169-byte request driving a dompdf render to ~412 MB peak RSS and ~4.8 s of CPU/wall time, versus ~34 MB for an identically-sized benign request — roughly a 12× memory amplification per request, repeatable and unauthenticated. This issue has been fixed in version 3.16.

Affected products

dompdf
  • ==< 3.1.6