CVE-2025-68428
Prior to version 4.0.0, user control of the first argument of the loadFile method in the node.js build allows local file inclusion/path traversal.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.18%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
jsPDF is a library to generate PDFs in JavaScript. Prior to version 4.0.0, user control of the first argument of the loadFile method in the node.js build allows local file inclusion/path traversal. If given the possibility to pass unsanitized paths to the loadFile method, a user can retrieve file contents of arbitrary files in the local file system the node process is running in. The file contents are included verbatim in the generated PDFs. Other affected methods are `addImage`, `html`, and `addFont`. Only the node.js builds of the library are affected, namely the `dist/jspdf.node.js` and `dist/jspdf.node.min.js` files. The vulnerability has been fixed in jsPDF@4.0.0. This version restricts file system access per default. This semver-major update does not introduce other breaking changes. Some workarounds areavailable. With recent node versions, jsPDF recommends using the `--permission` flag in production. The feature was introduced experimentally in v20.0.0 and is stable since v22.13.0/v23.5.0/v24.0.0. For older node versions, sanitize user-provided paths before passing them to jsPDF.
- CVSS 4.0
- 9.2 CRITICALCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 2.18% probability · 82th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-35, CWE-73, CWE-22
- Affected
- parall/jspdf
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
EPSS 2.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF/commit/a688c8f479929b24a6543b1fa2d6364abb03066dPatch
- https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF/releases/tag/v4.0.0Product, Release Notes
- https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF/security/advisories/GHSA-f8cm-6447-x5h2Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1517
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2350
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2568
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68428
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2427236
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-68428.json
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.