mediumVulnerability

CVE-2026-84311

### Impact An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes and large memory consumption. This requires extracting the text of a page with lots of XForm objects, where some of them might be re-used. ### Patches This has been fixed in [pypdf==6.16.1](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.16.1). ### Workarounds If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR [#3966](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3966).

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-763m-79hh-57f2
severity
medium
summary
pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage when extracting XForm objects
cve_id
CVE-2026-84311
is_ghsa_only
false
ghsa_published
2026-09-01T21:27:22Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-763m-79hh-57f2
ghsa_updated
2026-09-01T21:27:24Z

Related Entities (4)

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]pip/pypdf

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]pip/pypdf

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Excessive Iteration

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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