CVSS 3.1
8.2 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:LCVE-2026-42590
High (8.2) in thecodingmachine gotenberg. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Gotenberg is a Docker-powered stateless API for PDF files. Prior to 8.30.0, The ExifTool metadata write blocklist in Gotenberg can be bypassed using ExifTool's group-prefix syntax, enabling arbitrary file rename, move, hardlink, and symlink creation on the server. ExifTool supports group-prefix syntax where File:FileName is processed identically to FileName -- the prefix is stripped by SetNewValue in Writer.pl before tag matching. The safeKeyPattern regex (^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.:]+$) allows colons, so prefixed tag names pass validation. Any prefix works: File:FileName, System:Directory, a:HardLink, etc. Additionally, FilePermissions, FileUserID, and FileGroupID pseudo-tags are not blocked at all and can modify file attributes without any prefix. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.30.0.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 21% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-184
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- thecodingmachine:gotenberg
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-7v3r-m9c8-r855 | Go | github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8 | <=8.29.1 | no fix published |
| GO-2026-5234 | Go | github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v7 | all versions | no fix published |
| GO-2026-5234 | Go | github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8 | all versions | no fix published |