GHSA-fp3h-c4fm-7vvfHigh
pypdf: Possible large memory usage for large /ToUnicode streams (Follow-up 2)
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
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.
🎯 Affected products1
- pip/pypdf:< 6.18.1
🔗 References (6)
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-fp3h-c4fm-7vvf
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102995
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/4071
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/319d0b823ce2c311a2435e9fd93c13994d32bb51
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.18.1
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fp3h-c4fm-7vvf