jsPDF Denial of Service (DoS)

Description

User control of the first argument of the addImage method results in CPU utilization and denial of service.

If given the possibility to pass unsanitized image data or URLs to the addImage method, a user can provide a harmful PNG file that results in high CPU utilization and denial of service.

Other affected methods are: html.

Recommendation

Update the jspdf package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): <= 3.0.1
• Patched version(s): 3.0.2

References

• GHSA-8mvj-3j78-4qmw
• CVE-2025-57810
• CWE-20
• CWE-835
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• jsPDF Bypass Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) - CVE-2025-29907
• jsPDF Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via Unvalidated BMP Dimensions in BMPDecoder - CVE-2026-24133
• jsPDF Affected by Client-Side/Server-Side Denial of Service via Malicious GIF Dimensions - CVE-2026-25535
• undici Denial of Service attack via bad certificate data - CVE-2025-47279

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Tags:

npm

jspdf