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CVE-2025-70559PYSEC-2026-1761GHSA-F83H-GHPP-7WCC

pdfminer.six before 20251230 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability in the CMap loading mechanism.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 20251230
1 proof of concept on GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

pdfminer.six before 20251230 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability in the CMap loading mechanism. The library uses Python pickle to deserialize CMap cache files without validation. An attacker with the ability to place a malicious pickle file in a location accessible to the application can trigger arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation when the file is loaded by a trusted process. This is caused by an incomplete patch to CVE-2025-64512.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • pdfminer-sixPyPI

    fixed in 20251230

References 3

GitHub · pdfminer/pdfminer.six

GitHub Advisory Database

GitHub · isukasanuj/CVE-2025-70559