# CVE-2023-23924: URI validation failure on SVG parsing in Dompdf

- Also known as: GHSA-3CW5-7CXW-V5QG
- Severity: CVSS 10.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 2.0.2
- Published: 2023-01-31 · Updated: 2025-03-10

## Affected

- dompdf: fixed in 2.0.2
- dompdf/dompdf (Packagist): fixed in 2.0.2

## Description

Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. The URI validation on dompdf 2.0.1 can be bypassed on SVG parsing by passing `<image>` tags with uppercase letters. This may lead to arbitrary object unserialize on PHP < 8, through the `phar` URL wrapper. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to call arbitrary URL with arbitrary protocols, if they can provide a SVG file to dompdf. In PHP versions before 8.0.0, it leads to arbitrary unserialize, that will lead to the very least to an arbitrary file deletion and even remote code execution, depending on classes that are available.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on dompdf, dompdf/dompdf, upgrade to a fixed version (2.0.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/security/advisories/GHSA-3cw5-7cxw-v5qg
- https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/commit/7558f07f693b2ac3266089f21051e6b78c6a0c85
- https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/releases/tag/v2.0.2
- https://github.com/motikan2010/CVE-2023-23924

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