PT-2026-76488 · Pypi · Pypdf
Published
2026-08-10
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Updated
2026-08-10
CVSS v4.0
4.8
Medium
| Vector | AV: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 long runtimes and large memory consumption. This requires parsing the font width entries 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 #3946.
Fix
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Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Pypdf