GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-f8cm-6447-x5h2 jsPDF has Local File Inclusion/Path Traversal vulnerability
CRITICAL
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- 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
References
- https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF/security/advisories/GHSA-f8cm-6447-x5h2 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68428 advisory
- https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF/commit/a688c8f479929b24a6543b1fa2d6364abb03066d web
- https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF package
- https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF/releases/tag/v4.0.0 web