Vulnerability GHSA-qfv9-64jg-mh7p
Medium Risk
MEDIUM RISK
CVSS Score: 6.0
Score Range: 4.0–6.9
Medium severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 4.0–6.9). Important issues that meaningfully reduce security confidence.
1 hour ago
October 21, 2026 at 04:55 PM UTC
pypdf: Possible infinite loop in PdfWriter.find_outline_item
1.0 - 6.20.0
1.0 - 6.20.0
Summary
pypdf: Possible infinite loop in PdfWriter.find_outline_item
Details
Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires calling find_outline_item on a PdfWriter.
Patches
This has been fixed in pypdf==6.20.1.
Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #4188.
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Impacted packages
Timeline
Published
1 hour ago
October 21, 2026 at 04:55 PM UTC
Fixed (6.20.1)
9 days ago
October 12, 2026 at 04:14 PM UTC
Last Modified
1 hour ago
October 21, 2026 at 05:00 PM UTC