CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-66019

6.6 MEDIUM Published 2025-11-26 Modified 2026-10-19 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2025-11-26
Last modified
2026-10-19
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
6.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/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
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-409

Description

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.4.0, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to a memory usage of up to 1 GB per stream. This requires parsing the content stream of a page using the LZWDecode filter. This issue has been patched in version 6.4.0.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) weakness

References