PT-2026-49730

CVE-2026-49461

Published

2026-06-16

Updated

2026-09-18

Description by

CVSS 4.0

6.9

Medium

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pypdf versions prior to 6.12.2

Description A flaw in the pure-python PDF library allows an attacker to craft a PDF that causes excessive memory consumption. This occurs when extracting text from a page containing a form XObject (a reusable PDF object) that includes self-references.

Recommendations Update to version 6.12.2. As a temporary workaround, apply the changes from PR #3805.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Manop55555

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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