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GHSA-8x2r-v9x5-3qgh

## Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-f83h-ghpp-7wcc. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original Description pdfminer.six before 20251230 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability in the CMap loading mechanism. The library uses Python pickle to deserialize CMap cache files without validation. An attacker with the ability to place a malicious pickle file in a location accessible to the application can trigger arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation when the file is loaded by a trusted process. This is caused by an incomplete patch to CVE-2025-64512.

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-8x2r-v9x5-3qgh
summary
Duplicate Advisory: Insecure Deserialization (pickle) in pdfminer.six CMap Loader — Local Privesc
severity
high
cvss_score
7.8
cve_id
GHSA-8x2r-v9x5-3qgh
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-02-03T18:30:47Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8x2r-v9x5-3qgh
ghsa_updated
2026-02-04T16:49:47Z

Related Entities (3)

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]pip/pdfminer.six

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Deserialization of Untrusted Data

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