fix: Remove reportlab from default install (#1626)

* fixes #1459

* fix: Remove reportlab from default install

* docs: Provide info on how to install cve-bin-tool[PDF]

Author: terriko

.github/actions/spelling/allow.txt

@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ pacman
 palletsprojects
 pcsc
 pdf
+PDFs
 pdftotext
 pdxjohnny
 peb
@@ -296,6 +297,7 @@ realpython
 rebasing
 refactoring
 regex
+reportlab
 Romi
 rossburton
 rpmfile

README.md

@@ -98,6 +98,38 @@ Vulnerability Exchange (VEX) format by specifying `--vex` command line option.
 The generated VEX file can then be used as an `--input-file` to support
 a triage process.
 
+If you wish to use PDF support, you will need to install the `reportlab`
+library separately.
+
+If you intend to use PDF support when you install cve-bin-tool you can specify it and report lab will be installed as part of the cve-bin-tool install:
+```console
+pip install cve-bin-tool[PDF]
+```
+
+If you've already installed cve-bin-tool you can add reportlab after the fact
+using pip:
+
+```console
+pip install --upgrade reportlab
+```
+
+Note that reportlab was taken out of the default cve-bin-tool install because
+it has a known CVE associated with it
+([CVE-2020-28463](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28463)).  The
+cve-bin-tool code uses the recommended mitigations to limit which resources
+added to PDFs, as well as additional input validation.  This is a bit of a
+strange CVE because it describes core functionality of PDFs: external items,
+such as images, can be embedded in them, and thus anyone viewing a PDF could
+load an external image (similar to how viewing a web page can trigger external
+loads).  There's no inherent "fix" for that, only mitigations where users of
+the library must ensure only expected items are added to PDFs at the time of
+generation.
+
+Since users may not want to have software installed with an open, unfixable CVE
+associated with it, we've opted to make PDF support only available to users who
+have installed the library themselves.  Once the library is installed, the PDF
+report option will function.
+
 ## Full option list
 
 Usage: