GHSA-j5cx-ph8g-95v3
Fulgur: Unbounded page slicing from attacker-controlled CSS height causes denial of service
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Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
`fulgur` converts untrusted HTML/CSS into PDF, commonly on a server that
processes input supplied by many tenants. In versions prior to 0.19.0, a
body-direct child whose CSS-resolved height greatly exceeds the page height was
sliced into one fragment per page with **no upper bound**.
The height is taken directly from attacker-controlled HTML/CSS (`height`, `vh`
units), so a few bytes such as:
```html
<div style="height:99999999px"></div>
```
forced on the order of 125,000 page fragments. The pagination code then
allocates `vec![Vec::new(); page_count]` and runs a per-page render loop,
resulting in CPU and memory exhaustion. A non-finite height (one that resolves
to `+inf`) additionally made the slicing loop's `remaining -= last_slice_h`
decrement never terminate, causing an infinite loop.
An attacker able to submit HTML/CSS to a fulgur-based conversion service can
trigger this with a trivially small payload, denying service to the host and
any co-tenants.
## Patches
Fixed in **0.19.0**. A `MAX_PAGES` cap bounds the slice loop — halting it even
for a `+inf` height — and non-finite layout heights are sanitized so they can no
longer drive the loop.
## Workarounds
Upgrade to 0.19.0 or later. If upgrading is not immediately possible, validate
or constrain untrusted CSS (in particular `height` / `vh` on body-level
elements) before passing HTML to fulgur.
## Attack Vector rationale
`fulgur` performs no network I/O of its own; it renders HTML/CSS handed to it by
the embedding application. This advisory scores the crate independent of any
specific adopting program, so per the CVSS v3.1 User Guide §3.7 (scoring library
vulnerabilities related to incoming data) the Attack Vector is assessed as
**Network** for the reasonable worst-case deployment — a network-facing service
that renders untrusted, attacker-supplied HTML without user interaction. A
concrete system that receives the HTML in one component and passes it to fulgur
in a separate component may assess a lower environmental Attack Vector (Local,
per §3.10).
## References
- Fix: https://github.com/fulgur-rs/fulgur/pull/501
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.