CVE-2025-65108

md-to-pdf is vulnerable to arbitrary JavaScript code execution when parsing front matter

State
Published
Severity
10.0 Critical
Published
Nov 21, 2025
Updated
Nov 24, 2025
Reserved
Nov 17, 2025

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Description

md-to-pdf is a CLI tool for converting Markdown files to PDF using Node.js and headless Chrome. Prior to version 5.2.5, a Markdown front-matter block that contains JavaScript delimiter causes the JS engine in gray-matter library to execute arbitrary code in the Markdown to PDF converter process of md-to-pdf library, resulting in remote code execution. This issue has been patched in version 5.2.5.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.110.0 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
md-to-pdfsimonhaenisch
  • < 5.2.5Affected

References

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