PhpWeasyPrint: shell command injection via configurable WeasyPrint binary path due to inverted is_executable() guard (mirror of KnpLabs/snappy GHSA-vpr4-p6fq-85jc)
Description
PhpWeasyPrint is a PHP library allowing PDF generation from a URL or an HTML page. Prior to version 2.5.1, pontedilana/php-weasyprint builds the shell command for WeasyPrint by passing the binary path through escapeshellarg() first and then checking the *quoted* result with is_executable(). On POSIX escapeshellarg('/usr/local/bin/weasyprint') returns '/usr/local/bin/weasyprint' with the single-quote characters as part of the string, so is_executable() looks for a file whose actual name includes those quotes. That file never exists, the "safe" branch is dead code, and the raw $binary string (set via the constructor or setBinary()) flows directly into Symfony\Component\Process\Process::fromShellCommandline(). Any deployment whose binary path is sourced from configuration, an environment variable, or a per-tenant setting reaches a shell-command-injection sink. The library is documented as a one-to-one substitute for KnpLabs/snappy and inherited the exact pre-fix codepath KnpLabs patched in GHSA-vpr4-p6fq-85jc. PhpWeasyPrint version 2.5.1 contains a patch for the issue.
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1- Range: <2.5.1
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References
4- github.com/KnpLabs/snappy/security/advisories/GHSA-vpr4-p6fq-85jcmitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/pontedilana/php-weasyprint/commit/9e86a2b317237fc5728f712f5037164530117f7emitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/pontedilana/php-weasyprint/releases/tag/2.5.1mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/pontedilana/php-weasyprint/security/advisories/GHSA-f5gc-qxf8-mh9gmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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