High
Security advisory
Directory traversal vulnerability in wkhtmltopdf through 0.12.5 allows remote attackers to read local files and disclose sensitive information via a crafted html file running with the default configurations.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-21365
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Directory traversal vulnerability in wkhtmltopdf through 0.12.5 allows remote attackers to read local files and disclose sensitive information via a crafted html file running with the default configurations.
osv:CVE-2020-21365
Complete source record
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