mediumVulnerability
GHSA-4pxv-j86v-mhcw
### Impact An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes. This requires loading a PDF with a large trailer `/Size` value in incremental mode. ### Patches This has been fixed in [pypdf==6.10.2](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.10.2). ### Workarounds If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR [#3735](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3735).
Properties
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-4pxv-j86v-mhcw
- severity
- medium
- summary
- pypdf: Possible long runtimes for wrong size values in incremental mode
- cve_id
- GHSA-4pxv-j86v-mhcw
- is_ghsa_only
- true
- ghsa_published
- 2026-04-16T21:30:12Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4pxv-j86v-mhcw
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-04-16T21:30:14Z
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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