mediumVulnerability

CVE-2026-82398

### Impact An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes. This requires a call to `read_until_whitespace` with an input which does not have whitespace for a long time. ### Patches This has been fixed in [pypdf==6.15.0](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.15.0). ### Workarounds If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR [#3947](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3947).

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-fc8x-2rww-xw9m
severity
medium
summary
pypdf: Inefficient handling of non-whitespace inputs in read_until_whitespace
cve_id
CVE-2026-82398
is_ghsa_only
false
ghsa_published
2026-09-02T14:38:12Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fc8x-2rww-xw9m
ghsa_updated
2026-09-02T14:38:13Z

Related Entities (4)

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]pip/pypdf

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]pip/pypdf

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

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