CVE-2025-55161 (GCVE-0-2025-55161)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-11 22:28 – Updated: 2025-08-12 15:50
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Summary
Stirling-PDF is a locally hosted web application that performs various operations on PDF files. Prior to version 1.1.0, when using the /api/v1/convert/markdown/pdf endpoint to convert Markdown to PDF, the backend calls a third-party tool to process it and includes a sanitizer for security sanitization which can be bypassed and result in SSRF. This issue has been patched in version 1.1.0.
Severity ?
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
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Vendor Product Version
Stirling-Tools Stirling-PDF Affected: < 1.1.0
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