CVE-2023-28115Snappy vulnerable to PHAR deserialization, allowing remote code execution
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Snappy is a PHP library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from a url or a html page. Prior to version 1.4.2, Snappy is vulnerable to PHAR deserialization due to a lack of checking on the protocol before passing it into the `file_exists()` function. If an attacker can upload files of any type to the server he can pass in the phar:// protocol to unserialize the uploaded file and instantiate arbitrary PHP objects. This can lead to remote code execution especially when snappy is used with frameworks with documented POP chains like Laravel/Symfony vulnerable developer code. If a user can control the output file from the `generateFromHtml()` function, it will invoke deserialization. This vulnerability is capable of remote code execution if Snappy is used with frameworks or developer code with vulnerable POP chains. It has been fixed in version 1.4.2.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 24 months later
· 24 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 14% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistknplabs/knp-snappyGHSA-gq6w-q6wh-jggc (opens in a new tab)
References
References6
- https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy/security/advisories/GHSA-gq6w-q6wh-jggc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy/pull/469 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy/commit/1ee6360cbdbea5d09705909a150df7963a88efd6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy/commit/b66f79334421c26d9c244427963fa2d92980b5d3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy/blob/5126fb5b335ec929a226314d40cd8dad497c3d67/src/Knp/Snappy/AbstractGenerator.php#L670 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy/releases/tag/v1.4.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-1015 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-gq6w-q6wh-jggc (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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