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CVE-2026-40281

Gotenberg vulnerable to argument injection via newlines in ExifTool metadata values

CVSS 10 CRITICALEPSS 0.6%CWE-88
Vexday Risk Score
28Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 10EPSS 0.6%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
06 May 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
Gotenberg is a Docker-powered stateless API for PDF files. In versions 8.30.1 and earlier, the metadata write endpoint validates metadata keys for control characters but leaves metadata values unsanitized. A newline character in a metadata value splits the ExifTool stdin line into two separate arguments, allowing injection of arbitrary ExifTool pseudo-tags such as -FileName, -Directory, -SymLink, and -HardLink. This is a bypass of the incomplete key-sanitization fix introduced in v8.30.1. An unauthenticated attacker can rename or move any PDF being processed to an arbitrary path in the container filesystem, overwrite arbitrary files, or create symlinks and hard links at arbitrary paths.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Affected products
gotenberg · gotenberg

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