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CVE-2026-59941mediumCWE-400

Dompdf: Uncontrolled resource consumption based on declared BMP dimensions

33Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendcvss 6.3epss 0.5%
from disclosure to weapon5 days
Published on NVDJul 28
1st PoC+5d
exploitation probability
0.5%top 59% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
dompdf · dompdf
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