GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-f8cm-6447-x5h2 jsPDF has Local File Inclusion/Path Traversal vulnerability

CRITICAL Published 2026-01-05 Modified 2026-01-06 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-68428
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
jspdf
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
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
Weaknesses
CWE-22, CWE-35, CWE-73
Reviewed
2026-01-05

Affected packages

• npm jspdf: < 4.0.0 → fixed in 4.0.0

Description

Impact 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`, `addFont`. Only the node.js builds of the library are affected, namely the `dist/jspdf.node.js` and `dist/jspdf.node.min.js` files. Example attack vector: ```js import { jsPDF } from "./dist/jspdf.node.js"; const doc = new jsPDF(); doc.addImage("./secret.txt", "JPEG", 0, 0, 10, 10); doc.save("test.pdf"); // the generated PDF will contain the "secret.txt" file ``` Patches The vulnerability has been fixed in [email protected]. This version restricts file system access per default. This semver-major update does not introduce other breaking changes. Workarounds 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. See the node documentation for details. For older node versions, sanitize user-provided paths before passing them to jsPDF. Credits Researcher: kilkat (Kwangwoon Kim)

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-68428 jsPDF is a library to generate PDFs in JavaScript. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
  • CWE-35 Path Traversal: '.../...//' weakness
  • CWE-73 External Control of File Name or Path weakness

References