bentopdf

[!WARNING]
This release addresses security vulnerabilities (GHSA-wh78-rcw2-hhg9, GHSA-5xjf-rr5x-pcfj, GHSA-cx8x-7rrr-r9x8) affecting all versions up to and including v2.8.6.
All users are strongly advised to upgrade to v2.8.7 immediately.

Full technical details will be published after the coordinated-disclosure window has passed.

With thanks to @thefoulowl, @alhamrizvi-cloud, and @de3erve-hunter for responsibly disclosing these. ❤️

A note from the maintainer

I genuinely appreciate people taking the time to look into BentoPDF's security with thoughtful reports that make the project better, and improve the project's security.

But having said that, there has been a big problem. Since LLMs became widely available, a large share of incoming security reports are low effort, machine generated submissions describing, at best, minor bugs, not vulnerabilities, and certainly not CVEs. In one such instance, I received over twenty such "CVE" reports from three different accounts within about thirty minutes which is of course not humanly possible to write with detail in such a short stretch. But none of which held up, and all of which were clearly LLM generated. Reviewing each of them carefully still took me a week

I'm not against using AI to assist research; used judiciously, it's a great tool. But I won't spend time reviewing reports or even PRs whose authors haven't first read the actual code, tested against main, and confirmed the issue is real. If you file a report, please make sure you've done at least that. Genuine, verified findings will always be welcomed and credited.

Also Coming next in next release!

The next release of BentoPDF will be the biggest one yet:

• Real in-app PDF text editing . The testing is complete.
• A new hyper-compression engine.. Available via CLI or in the browser
• Kura, a new PDF/A engine covering twenty conversion targets across every published archival and production PDF standard:
  • PDF/A — all eleven levels: 1b/1a, 2b/2u/2a, 3b/3u/3a, 4/4f/4e
  • PDF/UA — accessibility (UA-1 and UA-2), layered onto any PDF/A level
  • PDF/X — print production: X-1a, X-3, X-4, X-6, with real ICC-based RGB→CMYK conversion
  • PDF/E and PDF/VT — engineering documents and variable/transactional print
  • Factur-X / ZUGFeRD electronic invoices

Kura will also be available via CLI or in the browser (via WASM)

With this shipped, I'll also have more time to review code and PRs actively again.

What's Changed

• build(deps): bump linkify-it from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/768
• Update and improve zh-TW Traditional Chinese locale by @PeterDaveHello in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/785
• build(deps): bump linkify-it from 5.0.1 to 5.0.2 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/802
• build(deps-dev): bump undici from 7.24.5 to 7.29.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/801
• build(deps-dev): bump brace-expansion from 2.0.3 to 2.1.2 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/794

New Contributors

• @PeterDaveHello made their first contribution in https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/pull/785 ❤️

Full Changelog: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/compare/v2.8.6...v2.8.7