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CVE-2025-62708PYSEC-2026-1831GHSA-JFX9-29X2-RV3J

pypdf manipulated LZWDecode streams can exhaust RAM

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.1.3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.1.3, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing the content stream of a page using the LZWDecode filter. This has been fixed in pypdf version 6.1.3.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • py-pdf pypdf

    fixed in 6.1.3

  • pypdfPyPI

    fixed in 6.1.3

References 4

GitHub · py-pdf/pypdf