USN-6232-1: wkhtmltopdf vulnerability

20 July 2023

wkhtmltopdf could be made to expose sensitive information if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

  • wkhtmltopdf - Command line utility to convert html to pdf using WebKit

Details

It was discovered that wkhtmltopdf was not properly enforcing the
same-origin policy when processing certain HTML files. If a user or
automated system using wkhtmltopdf were tricked into processing a
specially crafted HTML file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to
expose sensitive information.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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