PT-2026-76487 · Pypi · Pypdf

Published

2026-08-10

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Updated

2026-08-10

CVSS v4.0

4.8

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:L/AT:N/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 large memory consumption. This requires parsing the /ToUnicode entry of a font with unusually large values, for example during text extraction.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.15.0.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3944.

Fix

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Related Identifiers

PYSEC-2026-3655

Affected Products

Pypdf