GHSA-5xf7-4p34-54qrHigh
pypdf: Possible infinite loop for not terminated inline images
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires parsing the content stream of a page with a not terminated inline image, as done when extracting the page text for example.
Patches
This has been fixed in pypdf==6.14.1.
Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3891.
🎯 Affected products1
- pip/pypdf:< 6.14.1
🔗 References (6)
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-5xf7-4p34-54qr
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59936
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3891
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/ec3b14596186c40caca7cf8ab9b2155203e01b5b
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.14.1
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5xf7-4p34-54qr