Vulnerability GHSA-5jq2-8x83-x246
High Risk
HIGH RISK
CVSS Score: 8.0
Score Range: 7.0–8.9
High severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 7.0–8.9). Serious vulnerabilities that should be prioritized soon after critical fixes.
3 hours ago
October 01, 2026 at 03:05 PM UTC
pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage when parsing indirect objects
1.0 - 6.17.0
1.0 - 6.17.0
Summary
pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage when parsing indirect objects
Details
Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes. This requires reading a PDF document with long indirect object headers, not terminated by whitespace.
Patches
This has been fixed in pypdf==6.18.0.
Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #4055.
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pypdf: Possible long runtimes when generating appearance streams
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High Risk
3 hours ago
pypdf: Possible large memory usage when retrieving alphabetical page labels
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High Risk
3 hours ago
pypdf: Possible long runtimes for partially malformed FlateDecode streams (Follow-up)
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1.0 - 6.18.0 GHSA-jw7q-gvrg-4vj3
High Risk
3 hours ago
pypdf: Possible large memory usage when parsing font data
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Impacted packages
Timeline
Published
3 hours ago
October 01, 2026 at 03:05 PM UTC
Fixed (6.18.0)
24 days ago
September 07, 2026 at 04:48 PM UTC
Last Modified
3 hours ago
October 01, 2026 at 03:15 PM UTC