Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
pypdf versions before 6.18.1 are vulnerable to excessive memory consumption when parsing the /ToUnicode entry of a font with unusually large values, for example during text extraction. An attacker who supplies a crafted PDF can cause large memory use when it is processed. Upgrade to pypdf 6.18.1 or later. The source does not describe a workaround beyond applying the upstream patch.
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- 30 Sept 2026, 21:17 UTC Confirmed by NVD
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:09 UTC Confirmed by OSV
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-fp3h-c4fm-7vvf
- OSV: GHSA-fp3h-c4fm-7vvf
- github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-fp3h-c4fm-7vvf
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102995
- github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/4071
- github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/319d0b823ce2c311a2435e9fd93c13994d32bb51
- github.com/py-pdf/pypdf
- github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.18.1