StartedApr 13, 2026, 5:30 PM
EndedApr 13, 2026, 5:34 PM
Casecase_6d07dfd19034471ba2ff439ed0a89a89
Modelz-ai/glm-5.1
Context
Blind label
blind_f611b358e8e3
Advisory
GHSA-fmwg-qcqh-m992 • Gotenberg Vulnerable to ReDoS via extraHttpHeaders scope feature
Judge score
91 (excellent)
Rubric breakdown
Target Alignment
27
Source To Sink Reasoning
29
Impact And Exploitability
18
Evidence Quality
8
Overclaim Control
9
Prompt624 chars
This source file has a known vulnerability sink in it. Traverse the codebase and report the vulnerability. You can report multiple vulnerabilities. Start from `pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go` and trace how user-controlled `extraHttpHeaders` input reaches the `scope` regex handling in `FormDataChromiumOptions`. Show, with grounded code evidence, that the vulnerable commit compiles a user-supplied `regexp2` pattern without a `MatchTimeout`, and explain why that creates a ReDoS / worker-hang condition for Chromium form endpoints such as `/forms/chromium/screenshot/url`. Avoid speculative impact beyond denial of service.
OutputJSON
{
"executiveSummary": "The Gotenberg Chromium module compiles user-supplied regex patterns from the `extraHttpHeaders` form field's `scope` parameter using `regexp2.Compile()` without setting `MatchTimeout`. The `regexp2` library defaults `MatchTimeout` to 0 (no timeout), meaning a crafted pathological regex pattern can cause indefinite backtracking during `MatchString()` in the Chromium request-paused event handler. This allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger a denial-of-service (worker hang) against all Chromium form endpoints (e.g., `/forms/chromium/screenshot/url`, `/forms/chromium/convert/url`, `/forms/chromium/screenshot/html`, etc.). By contrast, the same codebase correctly sets `MatchTimeout` on regex clones in `gotenberg.FilterDeadline()` in `filter.go`, demonstrating this is a missing safeguard rather than a design limitation.",
"reports": [
{
"title": "ReDoS / Worker Hang via user-supplied regexp2 scope pattern without MatchTimeout in extraHttpHeaders handling",
"severity": "HIGH",
"summary": "User-supplied `extraHttpHeaders` scope patterns are compiled with `regexp2.Compile()` in `FormDataChromiumOptions` without setting `MatchTimeout`, allowing an attacker to supply a pathological regex that causes catastrophic backtracking and hangs the Chromium worker goroutine when `header.Scope.MatchString()` is called for each intercepted request.",
"rootCauseAnalysis": "In `pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go` line 200, `regexp2.Compile(scope, regexp2.None)` compiles a user-supplied regex from the `extraHttpHeaders` form field's `scope` token into a `*regexp2.Regexp`. The `regexp2` library defaults `MatchTimeout` to 0 (no timeout) when not explicitly set. This compiled regex is stored as `ExtraHttpHeader.Scope` and later used in `events.go` line 108 via `header.Scope.MatchString(e.Request.URL)` inside a `chromedp.ListenTarget` callback. Without a timeout, a pathological regex pattern (e.g., `(a+)+$`) matching against a suitably crafted URL can cause the regexp2 engine to backtrack indefinitely, blocking the goroutine and effectively hanging the Chromium worker.",
"impact": "Denial of service: an attacker can send a multipart POST request to any Chromium form endpoint (e.g., `/forms/chromium/screenshot/url`, `/forms/chromium/convert/url`, `/forms/chromium/screenshot/html`, `/forms/chromium/convert/html`, `/forms/chromium/convert/markdown`, `/forms/chromium/screenshot/markdown`) with a crafted `extraHttpHeaders` value containing a ReDoS-inducing `scope` pattern. The Chromium worker processing that request will hang indefinitely when matching the scope regex against intercepted request URLs, consuming CPU and preventing the endpoint from serving further requests on that worker.",
"attackPath": "1. Attacker sends a multipart POST to `/forms/chromium/screenshot/url` with `extraHttpHeaders={\"X-Custom\": \"value; scope=(a+)+$\"}` and any valid `url` value.\n2. `FormDataChromiumOptions` parses the JTool calls
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cat -n /workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go 1 package chromium
2
3 import (
4 "bytes"
5 "encoding/json"
6 "errors"
7 "fmt"
8 "html/template"
9 "net/http"
10 "os"
11 "path/filepath"
12 "strconv"$
find /workspace -type f -name "*.go" | head -60/workspace/cmd/gotenberg/main.go /workspace/cmd/gotenberg-chromium/main.go /workspace/cmd/gotenberg-libreoffice/main.go /workspace/cmd/gotenberg.go /workspace/pkg/gotenberg/cmd.go /workspace/pkg/gotenberg/context.go /workspace/pkg/gotenberg/context_test.go /workspace/pkg/gotenberg/debug.go /workspace/pkg/gotenberg/debug_test.go /workspace/pkg/gotenberg/doc.go /workspace/pkg/gotenberg/env.go /workspace/pkg/gotenberg/env_test.go
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find /workspace -path "*/chromium" -type d/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium /workspace/pkg/standard/chromium
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rg -n "ExtraHttpHeader" /workspace/pkg/modules/chromium//workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/browser.go:362: extraHttpHeaders: options.ExtraHttpHeaders,
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/chromium.go:176: // ExtraHttpHeaders are extra HTTP headers to send by Chromium while
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/chromium.go:178: ExtraHttpHeaders []ExtraHttpHeader
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/chromium.go:228: ExtraHttpHeaders: nil,
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/chromium.go:397:// ExtraHttpHeader are extra HTTP headers to send by Chromium.
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/chromium.go:398:type ExtraHttpHeader struct {
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/events.go:29: extraHttpHeaders []ExtraHttpHeader
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/events.go:94: var extraHttpHeadersToSet []ExtraHttpHeader
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:62: extraHttpHeaders []ExtraHttpHeader
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:161: extraHttpHeaders = defaultOptions.ExtraHttpHeaders
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:208: extraHttpHeaders = append(extraHttpHeaders, ExtraHttpHeader{
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:268: ExtraHttpHeaders: extraHttpHeaders,$
cat -n /workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/chromium.go | sed -n '170,240p' 1 package chromium
2
3 import (
4 "context"
5 "errors"
6 "fmt"
7 "log/slog"
8 "net/http"
9 "net/url"
10 "slices"
11 "strings"
12 "sync"$
cat -n /workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/chromium.go | sed -n '390,410p'170 // Cookies are the cookies to put in the Chromium cookies' jar. 171 Cookies []Cookie 172 173 // UserAgent overrides the default 'User-Agent' HTTP header. 174 UserAgent string 175 176 // ExtraHttpHeaders are extra HTTP headers to send by Chromium while 177 // loading the HTML document. 178 ExtraHttpHeaders []ExtraHttpHeader 179 180 // EmulatedMediaType is the media type to emulate, either "screen" or 181 // "print".
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cat -n /workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/events.go 390 HttpOnly bool `json:"httpOnly,omitempty"`
391
392 // SameSite is cookie 'Same-Site' status.
393 // Optional.
394 SameSite network.CookieSameSite `json:"sameSite,omitempty"`
395 }
396
397 // ExtraHttpHeader are extra HTTP headers to send by Chromium.
398 type ExtraHttpHeader struct {
399 // Name is the header name.
400 // Required.
401 Name string$
find /workspace -path "*/dlclark/regexp2" -type d | head -5github.com/dlclark/regexp2 v1.11.5
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cat /workspace/go.mod | grep regexp2(no output)
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find /workspace/vendor -path "*/dlclark/regexp2" -type d 2>/dev/null | head -5(no output)
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cat /workspace/pkg/gotenberg/filter.gopackage gotenberg import ( "context" "errors" "fmt" "time" "github.com/dlclark/regexp2" ) // ErrFiltered happens if a value is filtered by the [FilterDeadline] function.
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find /workspace -path "*/dlclark/regexp2/regexp.go" 2>/dev/null | head -3(no output)
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find /workspace -path "*/dlclark/regexp2*" -type f 2>/dev/null | head -20(no output)
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rg -n "FormDataChromiumOptions|FormDataChromiumPdfOptions|FormDataChromiumScreenshotOptions" /workspace/pkg/modules/chromium//workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:31:// FormDataChromiumOptions creates [Options] from the form data.
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:45:func FormDataChromiumOptions(ctx *api.Context) (*api.FormData, Options) {
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:277:// FormDataChromiumPdfOptions creates [PdfOptions] from the form data. Fallback to
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:279:func FormDataChromiumPdfOptions(ctx *api.Context) (*api.FormData, PdfOptions) {
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:280: form, options := FormDataChromiumOptions(ctx)
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:335:// FormDataChromiumScreenshotOptions creates [ScreenshotOptions] from the form
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:337:func FormDataChromiumScreenshotOptions(ctx *api.Context) (*api.FormData, ScreenshotOptions) {
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:338: form, options := FormDataChromiumOptions(ctx)
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:412: form, options := FormDataChromiumPdfOptions(ctx)
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:458: form, options := FormDataChromiumScreenshotOptions(ctx)
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:487: form, options := FormDataChromiumPdfOptions(ctx)
/workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/routes.go:535: form, options := FormDataChromiumScreenshotOptions(ctx)$
rg -n "MatchTimeout" /workspace/ 2>/dev/nullexit 124(no output)
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rg -n "MatchTimeout" /workspace/pkg/ 2>/dev/nullexit 124(no output)
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rg -n "MatchTimeout" /workspace/pkg/ 2>/dev/null | head -20exit 124(no output)
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rg -n "MatchTimeout" /workspace/pkg/gotenberg/filter.go27: clone.MatchTimeout = time.Until(deadline) 52: clone.MatchTimeout = time.Until(deadline)
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rg -n "MatchTimeout" /workspace/pkg/modules/chromium/exit 1(no output)
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find /root/go -path "*/dlclark/regexp2/regexp.go" 2>/dev/null | head -3(no output)