GHSA-5hx5-vpf9-5wcv: pypdf (CVE-2026-113786)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
pypdf	PyPI	<6.21.1	6.21.1

Machine-written summary

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

pypdf versions before 6.21.1 are vulnerable. An attacker who can supply a crafted PDF can cause arbitrary image parsers to be called when the PDF's image is loaded, but only if the optional Pillow dependency is installed. Upgrade to pypdf 6.21.1 or later; the source gives no other workaround besides a pull request, which is not listed here.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
2.3	Low	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0040, the 34th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:08 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:08 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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