CVE-2020-28463

MEDIUM

reportlab < 3.5.55 - Server-Side Request Forgery via IMG Tag

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

All versions of package reportlab are vulnerable to Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) via img tags. In order to reduce risk, use trustedSchemes & trustedHosts (see in Reportlab's documentation) Steps to reproduce by Karan Bamal: 1. Download and install the latest package of reportlab 2. Go to demos -> odyssey -> dodyssey 3. In the text file odyssey.txt that needs to be converted to pdf inject <img src="http://127.0.0.1:5000" valign="top"/> 4. Create a nc listener nc -lp 5000 5. Run python3 dodyssey.py 6. You will get a hit on your nc showing we have successfully proceded to send a server side request 7. dodyssey.py will show error since there is no img file on the url, but we are able to do SSRF

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0149
EPSS Percentile 70.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-918
Status published
Products (4)
fedoraproject/fedora 34
fedoraproject/fedora 35
pypi/reportlab 0 - 3.5.55PyPI
reportlab/reportlab
Published Feb 18, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026