# CVE-2023-41330: Unsafe deserialization in knplabs/knp-snappy

- Also known as: GHSA-92RV-4J2H-8MJJ
- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.3
- Published: 2023-09-06 · Updated: 2024-09-30

## Affected

- KnpLabs snappy: fixed in 1.4.3
- knplabs/knp-snappy (Packagist): fixed in 1.4.3

## Description

knplabs/knp-snappy is a PHP library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from a url or a html page. ## Issue On March 17th the vulnerability CVE-2023-28115 was disclosed, allowing an attacker to gain remote code execution through PHAR deserialization. Version 1.4.2 added a check `if (\strpos($filename, 'phar://') === 0)` in the `prepareOutput` function to resolve this CVE, however if the user is able to control the second parameter of the `generateFromHtml()` function of Snappy, it will then be passed as the `$filename` parameter in the `prepareOutput()` function. In the original vulnerability, a file name with a `phar://` wrapper could be sent to the `fileExists()` function, equivalent to the `file_exists()` PHP function. This allowed users to trigger a deserialization on arbitrary PHAR files. To fix this issue, the string is now passed to the `strpos()` function and if it starts with `phar://`, an exception is raised. However, PHP wrappers being case insensitive, this patch can be bypassed using `PHAR://` instead of `phar://`. A successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows executing arbitrary code and accessing the underlying filesystem. The attacker must be able to upload a file and the server must be running a PHP version prior to 8. This issue has been addressed in commit `d3b742d61a` which has been included in version 1.4.3. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that only trusted users may submit data to the `AbstractGenerator->generate(...)` function.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on KnpLabs snappy, knplabs/knp-snappy, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.3) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy/security/advisories/GHSA-92rv-4j2h-8mjj
- https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy/security/advisories/GHSA-gq6w-q6wh-jggc
- https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy/commit/d3b742d61a68bf93866032c2c0a7f1486128b67e

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