Severity
Awaiting Analysis
Details
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Overview
About vulnerability
Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes. This requires accessing a stream which uses the /FlateDecode filter with a PNG predictor.
Patches
This has been fixed in pypdf==6.12.2.
Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3806.
Details
- Affected product:
- pypdf
- Affected packages:
- pypdf @ 5.9.0.post7+tuxcare