CVE-2025-68428

Published Jan 5, 2026

Last updated a month ago

jsPDF

Overview

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CVE-2025-68428 is a local file inclusion and path traversal vulnerability affecting the Node.js builds of the jsPDF library, specifically versions prior to 4.0.0. The flaw arises when user-controlled input is passed as the first argument to methods such as `loadFile`, `addImage`, `html`, and `addFont` without proper sanitization. This allows an attacker to supply crafted paths, including traversal sequences, to read arbitrary files from the local file system where the Node.js process is running. Upon successful exploitation, the contents of these arbitrary files are included verbatim within the generated PDF documents. This vulnerability is present only in the `dist/jspdf.node.js` and `dist/jspdf.node.min.js` builds of the library. The issue has been addressed in jsPDF version 4.0.0, which restricts file system access by default.

Description: jsPDF is a library to generate PDFs in JavaScript. Prior to version 4.0.0, user control of the first argument of the loadFile method in the node.js build allows local file inclusion/path traversal. If given the possibility to pass unsanitized paths to the loadFile method, a user can retrieve file contents of arbitrary files in the local file system the node process is running in. The file contents are included verbatim in the generated PDFs. Other affected methods are `addImage`, `html`, and `addFont`. Only the node.js builds of the library are affected, namely the `dist/jspdf.node.js` and `dist/jspdf.node.min.js` files. The vulnerability has been fixed in jsPDF@4.0.0. This version restricts file system access per default. This semver-major update does not introduce other breaking changes. Some workarounds areavailable. With recent node versions, jsPDF recommends using the `--permission` flag in production. The feature was introduced experimentally in v20.0.0 and is stable since v22.13.0/v23.5.0/v24.0.0. For older node versions, sanitize user-provided paths before passing them to jsPDF.
Source: security-advisories@github.com
NVD status: Analyzed
Products: jspdf

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

Type: Secondary
Base score: 9.2
Impact score: -
Exploitability score: -
Vector string: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Severity: CRITICAL

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.5
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity: HIGH

Weaknesses

security-advisories@github.com: CWE-35
nvd@nist.gov: CWE-22

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:parall:jspdf:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "1EED4B66-0CA7-43D9-A73B-505062F90B4D",
            "versionEndExcluding": "4.0.0"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.