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CVE-2026-41312PYSEC-2026-3011GHSA-7GW9-CF7V-778F

pypdf: Manipulated FlateDecode predictor parameters can exhaust RAM

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.10.2
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. An attacker who uses a vulnerability present in versions prior to 6.10.2 can craft a PDF which leads to the RAM being exhausted. This requires accessing a stream compressed using `/FlateDecode` with a `/Predictor` unequal 1 and large predictor parameters. This has been fixed in pypdf 6.10.2. As a workaround, one may apply the changes from the patch manually.

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 6.10.2

  • pypdfPyPI

    fixed in 6.10.2

References 4

GitHub · py-pdf/pypdf