PT-2026-120633 · Py Pdf+1 · Pypdf

CVE-2026-113786

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Published

2026-10-21

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Updated

2026-10-21

CVSS v4.0

2.3

Low

VectorAV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to arbitrary image parsers being called. This requires loading an image which claims to use the /DCTDecode filter (JPEG data).
Users which do not have the optional Pillow dependency installed in their environment are not affected.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.21.1.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #4222.

Fix

RCE

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-113786
GHSA-5HX5-VPF9-5WCV

Affected Products

Pypdf