VulnerabilityAnalyzed
CVE-2026-41168
An attacker who uses a vulnerability present in versions prior to 6.10.1 can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes.
MEDIUM 6.9EPSS 0.30%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.30%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. An attacker who uses a vulnerability present in versions prior to 6.10.1 can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes. This requires cross-reference streams with wrong large `/Size` values or object streams with wrong large `/N` values. This has been fixed in pypdf 6.10.1. As a workaround, one may apply the changes from the patch manually.
- CVSS 4.0
- 6.9 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.30% probability · 22th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-834
- Affected
- pypdf project/pypdf
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/62338e9d36419cf193ccec7331784f45df1d70b3Patch
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3733Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.10.1Product, Release Notes
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-jj6c-8h6c-hppxMitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.