CVE-2026-28351

Updated on 28 Feb 2026

Severity

6.9 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
6.9
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Overview

About vulnerability

Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing the content stream using the RunLengthDecode filter.

Patches

This has been fixed in [pypdf==6.7.4](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.7.4).

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR [#3664](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3664).

Details

Affected product:
pypdf
Affected packages:
pypdf @ 5.9.0