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CVE-2026-33123GHSA-QPXP-75PX-XJCPPYSEC-2026-3023

pypdf has inefficient decoding of array-based streams

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.9.1
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. Versions prior to 6.9.1 allow an attacker to craft a malicious PDF which leads to long runtimes and/or large memory usage. Exploitation requires accessing an array-based stream with many entries. This issue has been fixed in version 6.9.1.

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 6.9.1

  • pypdfPyPI

    fixed in 6.9.1

References 3

GitHub · py-pdf/pypdf