GHSA-g867-7843-wf8qHigh
pypdf: Possible infinite loop for not terminated inline images (ASCII85 and ASCIIHex filter)
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires parsing the content stream of a page with a not terminated inline image, as done when extracting the page text for example. It only affects the ASCII85 and ASCIIHex filters.
Patches
This has been fixed in pypdf==6.14.2.
Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3892.
🎯 Affected products1
- pip/pypdf:< 6.14.2
🔗 References (6)
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-g867-7843-wf8q
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59935
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3892
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/5a33a46416aa1ae6c025ff90a3cca57631fdafd2
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.14.2
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g867-7843-wf8q