{"id":"CVE-2026-49461","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-49461","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:17:12.303Z","title":"Prior to 6.12.2, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage.","description":"pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.12.2, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires extracting the text of a page which contains a form XObject with self-references. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.12.2.","published":"2026-06-22T21:16:25.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-25T23:10:00.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":6.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/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"},"cwe":["CWE-400"],"affected":["pypdf project/pypdf"],"epss":{"score":0.00174,"percentile":0.06832,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.17%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3805","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.12.2","tags":["Patch","Release Notes"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-j543-4vmf-qm7v","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49461","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}