# CVE-2026-68523: Fulgur: Unbounded page slicing from attacker-controlled CSS height causes denial of service

- Also known as: RUSTSEC-2026-0200, GHSA-J5CX-PH8G-95V3
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.19.0
- Published: 2026-09-17 · Updated: 2026-09-21

## Affected

- fulgur-rs fulgur: fixed in 0.19.0
- fulgur (crates.io): from 0.0.0-0, fixed in 0.19.0
- fulgur (crates.io): fixed in 0.19.0

## Description

`fulgur` converts untrusted HTML/CSS into PDF, commonly on a server that processes input supplied by many tenants. In versions prior to 0.19.0, a body-direct child whose CSS-resolved height greatly exceeds the page height was sliced into one fragment per page with no upper bound. This is fixed in 0.19.0. A `MAX_PAGES` cap bounds the slice loop — halting it even for a `+inf` height — and non-finite layout heights are sanitized so they can no longer drive the loop. As a workaround, validate or constrain untrusted CSS (in particular `height` / `vh` on body-level elements) before passing HTML to fulgur.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on fulgur-rs fulgur, fulgur, upgrade to a fixed version (0.19.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/fulgur-rs/fulgur/security/advisories/GHSA-j5cx-ph8g-95v3
- https://github.com/fulgur-rs/fulgur/pull/501
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0200.html

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