Vulnerability GHSA-fp3h-c4fm-7vvf

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 03:06 PM UTC
pypdf: Possible large memory usage for large /ToUnicode streams (Follow-up 2)
1.0 - 6.18.0
1.0 - 6.18.0

Summary

pypdf: Possible large memory usage for large /ToUnicode streams (Follow-up 2)

Details

Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory consumption. This requires parsing the /ToUnicode entry of a font with unusually large values, for example during text extraction.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.18.1.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #4071.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
3 hours ago
October 01, 2026 at 03:06 PM UTC
Fixed (6.18.1)
20 days ago
September 11, 2026 at 10:10 AM UTC
Last Modified
1 hour ago
October 01, 2026 at 05:56 PM UTC