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Advisory record · GHSA-42gh-23hr-vphw

pypdf has possible long runtimes when retrieving page labels

CVSS 7.1 HighEPSS 0.0022 · 12th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 30 Oct 2026, 23:08 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
pypdfPyPI<6.21.36.21.3
Identifiers
GHSA-42gh-23hr-vphw · CVE-2026-119206
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400
Tags
Published
30 Oct 2026
Updated
30 Oct 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

The pypdf PyPI package, versions before 6.21.3, can take a very long time to run when retrieving page labels from a PDF. An attacker can exploit this by supplying a specially crafted PDF that a program then reads for its page labels, causing long runtimes. Users should upgrade to pypdf 6.21.3, which fixes the issue; if upgrading is not yet possible, the source suggests applying the changes from pull request #4251.

Written 31 Oct 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.1 High 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0022, the 12th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 29 Oct 2026, 20:37 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  2. 29 Oct 2026, 21:17 UTC Confirmed by NVD
  3. 31 Oct 2026, 14:07 UTC First seen by agentprime
  4. 31 Oct 2026, 14:07 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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