CVE-2020-28463
MEDIUMreportlab < 3.5.55 - Server-Side Request Forgery via IMG Tag
Title source: llmDescription
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
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00037.html
Exploit, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-REPORTLAB-1022145
Product, Vendor Advisory
https://www.reportlab.com/docs/reportlab-userguide.pdf
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HMUJA5GZTPQ5WRYUCCK2GEZM4W43N7HH/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZQSFCID67K6BTC655EQY6MNOF35QI44/
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