Description
Gotenberg is an API-based document conversion tool. In versions 8.30.1 and earlier, the default private-IP deny-lists for the --webhook-deny-list and --api-download-from-deny-list flags use a case-sensitive regular expression (^https?://) to match URL schemes. Because Go's net/url.Parse() normalizes the scheme to lowercase before establishing the outbound TCP connection, an attacker can bypass the deny-list by simply capitalizing part of the URL scheme (e.g., HTTP://, HTTPS://, or Http://). This allows unauthenticated requests to reach internal network services, including private IP ranges, loopback addresses, and cloud instance metadata endpoints such as HTTP://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/.

This bypasses the same security control that was patched in CVE-2026-27018.

This issue has been fixed in version 8.31.0.
Published: 2026-05-05
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-5q7p-7jgv-ww56 Gotenberg has case-insensitive URL scheme that bypasses webhook and downloadFrom deny-list SSRF protection
History

Fri, 08 May 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Thecodingmachine
Thecodingmachine gotenberg
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:thecodingmachine:gotenberg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Thecodingmachine
Thecodingmachine gotenberg
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}


Wed, 06 May 2026 19:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 05 May 2026 23:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Gotenberg
Gotenberg gotenberg
Vendors & Products Gotenberg
Gotenberg gotenberg

Tue, 05 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Gotenberg is an API-based document conversion tool. In versions 8.30.1 and earlier, the default private-IP deny-lists for the --webhook-deny-list and --api-download-from-deny-list flags use a case-sensitive regular expression (^https?://) to match URL schemes. Because Go's net/url.Parse() normalizes the scheme to lowercase before establishing the outbound TCP connection, an attacker can bypass the deny-list by simply capitalizing part of the URL scheme (e.g., HTTP://, HTTPS://, or Http://). This allows unauthenticated requests to reach internal network services, including private IP ranges, loopback addresses, and cloud instance metadata endpoints such as HTTP://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/. This bypasses the same security control that was patched in CVE-2026-27018. This issue has been fixed in version 8.31.0.
Title Gotenberg SSRF via case-insensitive URL scheme bypass in webhook and downloadFrom deny-lists
Weaknesses CWE-918
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N'}


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Gotenberg Gotenberg
Thecodingmachine Gotenberg
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-06T18:41:51.071Z

Reserved: 2026-04-10T20:22:44.034Z

Link: CVE-2026-40280

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-06T18:41:29.962Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-05-05T20:16:38.633

Modified: 2026-05-08T19:06:45.047

Link: CVE-2026-40280

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-05T23:00:10Z

Weaknesses