GHSA-7gw9-cf7v-778fMediumCVSS 6.5

pypdf: Manipulated FlateDecode predictor parameters can exhaust RAM

Published
April 16, 2026
Last Modified
May 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to the RAM being exhausted. This requires accessing a stream compressed using /FlateDecode with a /Predictor unequal 1 and large predictor parameters.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.10.2.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3734.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/pypdf:< 6.10.2

🔗 References (6)