py-pdf/pypdf · Security
pypdf: Possible large memory usage when retrieving Roman page labels
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-qv6h-rv94-w285
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-102993
- 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 large memory consumption. This requires accessing the page labels of a document with large Roman numerals.
Patches
This has been fixed in pypdf==6.17.0.
Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #4047.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-qv6h-rv94-w285 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102993 ↗
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/4047 ↗
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/89db7c4fe9315ecc964bfdf05a4e8c4b94175163 ↗
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.17.0 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qv6h-rv94-w285 ↗