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CVE-2026-31826PYSEC-2026-3019GHSA-HQMH-PPP3-XVM7

pypdf: manipulated stream length values can exhaust RAM

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.8.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.8.0, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing a content stream with a rather large /Length value, regardless of the actual data length inside the stream. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.8.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • py-pdf pypdf

    fixed in 6.8.0

  • pypdfPyPI

    fixed in 6.8.0

References 3

GitHub · py-pdf/pypdf