What is CVE-2020-7790?

CVE-2020-7790 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spatie Browsershot, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-12-11.

How severe is CVE-2020-7790?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Spatie Browsershot

CVE-2020-7790

This affects the package spatie/browsershot from 0.0.0. By specifying a URL in the file:// protocol an attacker is able to include arbitrary files in the resultant PDF.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2020-12-11 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 63rd percentile — 62.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Spatie Browsershot
Spatie/browsershot — versions 0.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PHP-SPATIEBROWSERSHOT-1037064 (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/spatie/browsershot/issues/441#issue-735049731 (Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-7790?: CVE-2020-7790 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spatie Browsershot, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-12-11.
How severe is CVE-2020-7790?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.