MEDIUMCVSS v4 6.0Vulnerability
CVE-2026-113792
### 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](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.20.1). ### Workarounds If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR [#4188](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/4188).
Properties
- Severity
- medium
- Summary
- pypdf: Possible infinite loop in PdfWriter.find_outline_item
- Nvd fetched at
- 2026-10-23T02:14:06.697318+00:00
- Epss score
- 0.00466
- Cvss severity
- MEDIUM
- Cvss score
- 6
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-23T02:20:34+00:00
- Ghsa published
- 2026-10-21T16:55:35Z
- Source url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qfv9-64jg-mh7p
- Ghsa updated
- 2026-10-21T16:55:37Z
- Ghsa id
- GHSA-qfv9-64jg-mh7p
- Last source
- GitHub Advisory Database
- Cvss version
- 4.0
- Score
- 6
- Cve id
- CVE-2026-113792
- Cvss vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- First seen by Signal
- 2026-10-21T17:40:10+00:00
- Is ghsa only
- false
- Vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Published at
- 2026-10-21T16:17:27.173
Related Entities (3)
AFFECTS (1)
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
VULNERABLE_TO (1)
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