CVE-2026-40280CWE-918

Gotenberg SSRF via case-insensitive URL scheme bypass in webhook and downloadFrom deny-lists

High · published May 5, 2026

CVSS v4.0
7.8
EPSS
2%
Percentile
81.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Gotenberg is an API-based document conversion tool. In versions 8.30.1 and earlier, the default private-IP deny-lists for the --webhook-deny-list and --api-download-from-deny-list flags use a case-sensitive regular expression (^https?://) to match URL schemes. Because Go's net/url.Parse() normalizes the scheme to lowercase before establishing the outbound TCP connection, an attacker can bypass the deny-list by simply capitalizing part of the URL scheme (e.g., HTTP://, HTTPS://, or Http://). This allows unauthenticated requests to reach internal network services, including private IP ranges, loopback addresses, and cloud instance metadata endpoints such as HTTP://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/.

This bypasses the same security control that was patched in CVE-2026-27018.

This issue has been fixed in version 8.31.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N
EPSS
0.02115 · 81.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Published
2026-05-05T19:52Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 MAY 19:52Z
    Gotenberg SSRF via case-insensitive URL scheme bypass in webhook and downloadFrom deny-lists
    cvelistv5