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CVE-2025-68428: parallax jsPDF · Path Traversal: '.../...//

Affects parallax jsPDFSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 9.2 Critical : upgrade to 4.0.0 as a priority.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
9.2Critical
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 82% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 4.0.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 5 Jan 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade jsPDF and jspdf to 4.0.0.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
parallaxjsPDFAffected
  • <4.0.0
Fixed in
  • 4.0.0
npmjspdfpkg:npm/jspdfOther threatsAffected
  • <4.0.0
Fixed in
  • 4.0.0

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AI-suggested

A fixed version of jsPDF is available: upgrade to version 4.0.0 or later, which restricts file system access by default. For environments where upgrading is not immediately possible, mitigations include sanitizing input paths passed to loadFile and related methods, and using recent Node.js versions with the --permission flag to restrict file system access. Vendor advisories note that no other official mitigations meet their criteria, so upgrading is strongly recommended.

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.

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