CVE-2024-21549

6.6 mediumEPSS 0.6%

Medium (6.6). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Versions of the package spatie/browsershot before 5.0.3 are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation due to improper URL validation in the setUrl method. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by utilizing view-source:file://, which allows for arbitrary file reading on a local file. **Note:** This is a bypass of the fix for [CVE-2024-21544](https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PHP-SPATIEBROWSERSHOT-8496745).

Severity

CVSS 4.0

6.6 medium

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

CVSS 3.1

8.6 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2024-12-20
Modified: 2026-08-06
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://github.com/spatie/browsershot/commit/f791ce0ae8dd99367dbfa30588ee31e1196e1728
https://github.com/spatie/browsershot/discussions/906
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PHP-SPATIEBROWSERSHOT-8533023

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