Apache Camel: Camel-Docling Unvalidated Message Body Input Source Enables Server-Side Request Forgery and Local File Disclosure
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') and Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Camel Docling component. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.15.0 before 4.18.5, from 4.19.0 before 4.22.1. DoclingProducer decided what a String message body meant by inspecting its prefix. A body starting with http:// or https:// was handed to Docling as a remote URL to fetch, a body starting with / or containing a backslash was read from the local filesystem, and anything else was written to a temporary file and converted as document content. The mode was chosen implicitly and no endpoint option allowed a route author to pin the component to a single interpretation, so a route that means convert whatever text arrives in the body silently became a fetcher of remote resources or a reader of local files whenever the text happened to begin with one of those prefixes. The only guard applied to the derived value was a size check, and that check was wrapped in an existence test, so a path that resolved to nothing, or to a pseudo-file reporting a size of zero, passed without being checked at all. Five call sites reached the two sinks: the CLI mode appended the value as the final positional argument of the docling subprocess, and the docling-serve mode passed it either to HttpSource for the backend to fetch or to Files.readAllBytes so that the content could be base64-encoded and
CVE-2026-78163
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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-78163
Apache Camel
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"vendor": "Apache Software Foundation",
"product": "Apache Camel",
"versions": [
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"status": "affected",
"version": "4.15.0",
"lessThan": "4.18.5",
"versionType": "maven"
},
{
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"lessThan": "4.22.1",
"versionType": "maven"
},
{
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "4.18.5",
"versionType": "maven"
},
{
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "4.22.1",
"versionType": "maven"
},
{
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "4.23.0",
"versionType": "maven"
}
],
"packageURL": "pkg:maven/org.apache.camel/camel-docling",
"packageName": "org.apache.camel:camel-docling",
"collectionURL": "https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
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