PT-2026-132829

CVE-2026-119207

Published

2026-10-29

Updated

2026-10-29

Description by

CVSS 4.0

7.1

High

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pypdf versions prior to 6.21.3

Description The library can consume excessive memory when strict mode loads a crafted invalid PDF dictionary. This occurs because nested parsing failures append repeated exception text to newly raised errors, which allows a small malformed dictionary to amplify into very large error messages.

Recommendations Update to version 6.21.3.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-405: Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Related identifiers

CVE-2026-119207