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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS USN-6232-1 Critical: wkhtmltopdf Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A major vulnerability in wkhtmltopdf on Ubuntu may leak confidential data through a specially designed document. It is advised to perform an update.
wkhtmltopdf could be made to expose sensitive information if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

wkhtmltopdf could be made to expose sensitive information if it opened a

specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- wkhtmltopdf: Command line utility to convert html to pdf using WebKit

Details:

It was discovered that wkhtmltopdf was not properly enforcing the

same-origin policy when processing certain HTML files. If a user or

automated system using wkhtmltopdf were tricked into processing a

specially crafted HTML file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to

expose sensitive information.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical threat Ubuntu information exposure wkhtmltopdf

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro):
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro):
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.2.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro):
wkhtmltopdf 0.9.9-4ubuntu0.1~esm1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6232-1

CVE-2020-21365

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July 20, 2023

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical threat Ubuntu information exposure wkhtmltopdf

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wkhtmltopdf/0.12.5-1ubuntu0.1

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