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Advisory record · GHSA-5jq2-8x83-x246

pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage when parsing indirect objects

CVSS 8.7 HighEPSS 0.0034 · 27th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 1 Oct 2026, 15:05 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
pypdfPyPI<6.18.06.18.0
Identifiers
GHSA-5jq2-8x83-x246 · CVE-2026-102994 · PYSEC-2026-4153
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400 · CWE-407
Tags
Published
1 Oct 2026
Updated
1 Oct 2026

Machine-written summary

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

pypdf versions before 6.18.0 are vulnerable to long runtimes and large memory usage when parsing indirect objects in a PDF. An attacker who can get a user to open a crafted PDF with long indirect object headers not terminated by whitespace can cause slow processing. Upgrade to pypdf 6.18.0 or later. The source gives few details on the memory impact.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.7 High 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0034, the 27th percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 30 Sept 2026, 20:17 UTC Confirmed by NVD
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC First seen by agentprime
  3. 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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