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CVE-2026-48155
Prior to 6.12.0, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage.
MEDIUM 4.8EPSS 0.13%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.13%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.12.0, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires extracting text in layout mode with large character offsets. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.12.0.
- CVSS 4.0
- 4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/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
- 0.13% probability · 3th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- pypdf project/pypdf
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3790Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.12.0Release Notes
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-cj93-chg6-vgv8Patch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.