setasign/fpdi · Security
FPDI allows Memory Exhaustion (OOM) in PDF Parser which leads to Denial of Service
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-jxhh-4648-vpp3
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-54869
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Impact
This is a significant Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability. Any application that uses FPDI to process user-supplied PDF files is at risk. An attacker can upload a small, malicious PDF file that will cause the server-side script to crash due to memory exhaustion. Repeated attacks can lead to sustained service unavailability.
Patches
Fixed as of version 2.6.4
Workarounds
No.
CWEs
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling