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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.8 Medium

CVE-2026-84310

pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage when retrieving outlines

Description

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.16.1, an attacker can craft a PDF that causes pypdf/_doc_common.py _get_outline to consume long runtimes and large amounts of memory when retrieving document outlines with large numbers of entries or deeply nested reused paths because the traversal lacked global entry-count and nesting-depth limits. This issue is fixed in version 6.16.1.

Affected products

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

py-pdf pypdf

  • < 6.16.1affected

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