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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.0 Medium

CVE-2026-113791

pypdf: Possible large memory usage when parsing content streams

Description

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.21.0, an attacker can craft a PDF containing a content stream with many small operations, causing parsing to consume large amounts of memory. This issue is fixed in version 6.21.0.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

py-pdf pypdf

  • < 6.21.0affected

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