{"id":"CVE-2020-28463","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-28463","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:32:33.376Z","title":"All versions of package reportlab are vulnerable to Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) via img tags.","description":"All versions of package reportlab are vulnerable to Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) via img tags. In order to reduce risk, use trustedSchemes & trustedHosts (see in Reportlab's documentation) Steps to reproduce by Karan Bamal: 1. Download and install the latest package of reportlab 2. Go to demos -> odyssey -> dodyssey 3. In the text file odyssey.txt that needs to be converted to pdf inject <img src=\"http://127.0.0.1:5000\" valign=\"top\"/> 4. Create a nc listener nc -lp 5000 5. Run python3 dodyssey.py 6. You will get a hit on your nc showing we have successfully proceded to send a server side request 7. dodyssey.py will show error since there is no img file on the url, but we are able to do SSRF","published":"2021-02-18T16:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:10:30.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"report@snyk.io","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-918"],"affected":["reportlab/reportlab","fedoraproject/fedora"],"epss":{"score":0.01335,"percentile":0.70963,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.33%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00037.html","source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HMUJA5GZTPQ5WRYUCCK2GEZM4W43N7HH/","source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZQSFCID67K6BTC655EQY6MNOF35QI44/","source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-REPORTLAB-1022145","tags":["Exploit","Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://www.reportlab.com/docs/reportlab-userguide.pdf","tags":["Product","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00037.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HMUJA5GZTPQ5WRYUCCK2GEZM4W43N7HH/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZQSFCID67K6BTC655EQY6MNOF35QI44/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-REPORTLAB-1022145","tags":["Exploit","Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.reportlab.com/docs/reportlab-userguide.pdf","tags":["Product","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28463","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}