GHSA-vr63-x8vc-m265Medium

pypdf possibly loops infinitely when reading DCT inline images without EOF marker

Published
October 22, 2025
Last Modified
October 23, 2025

🔗 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 which has an inline image using the DCTDecode filter.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.1.3.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3501.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/pypdf:< 6.1.3

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