Advisory record · GHSA-62p3-hvxx-fxg4

Gotenberg has an ExifTool Dangerous Tag Blocklist Bypass via Group-Prefixed Tag Names that Allows Arbitrary File Rename and Move

CVSS 8.2 HighEPSS 0.0035 · 28th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 4 May 2026, 19:21 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8Go<=8.30.1No fixed version yet
Identifiers
GHSA-62p3-hvxx-fxg4 · CVE-2026-40893 · GO-2026-5162
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-20 · CWE-73 · CWE-184
Published
4 May 2026
Updated
25 Jun 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

GHSA-62p3-hvxx-fxg4: Gotenberg versions up to and including 8.30.1 (github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8) block some ExifTool tag names, but a group-prefixed form such as System:FileName is not blocked, so ExifTool still renames or moves files. Any client that can send HTTP requests to the service can do this without logging in, and the advisory describes changing file permissions the same way. No fixed version is listed; the source gives no workaround beyond restricting access to the service.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.2 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0035, the 28th percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:07 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:07 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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