py-pdf/pypdf · Security
pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage when parsing indirect objects
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-5jq2-8x83-x246
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-102994
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes. This requires reading a PDF document with long indirect object headers, not terminated by whitespace.
Patches
This has been fixed in pypdf==6.18.0.
Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #4055.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CWE-407 · Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
References
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-5jq2-8x83-x246 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102994 ↗
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/4055 ↗
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/82501d2993c6387833c4949d205caeb188f8bb9e ↗
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.18.0 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5jq2-8x83-x246 ↗