CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-119206
Exploitation and prioritisation
- EPSS
- 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days · in the top 87.3% of all CVEs (2026-11-03)
- CISA SSVC: exploitation
- none
- CISA SSVC: automatable
- yes
- CISA SSVC: technical impact
- partial
- EU Vulnerability Database
- EUVD-2026-113378
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | pypdf | < 6.21.3 | 6.21.3 | GHSA-42gh-23hr-vphw |
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-10-29
- Last modified
- 2026-11-03
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/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
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.21.3, pypdf can take excessive time to retrieve page labels from a crafted PDF containing a flat page-label number tree with many ranges. The page_labels property resolves each page independently and repeatedly scans the same /Nums array from the beginning, causing work to grow with both the page count and the number of label ranges. This issue is fixed in version 6.21.3.
Affected configurations
• py-pdf pypdf (< 6.21.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
Referenced by GitHub Advisory · alias (1)
- GHSA-42gh-23hr-vphw pypdf has possible long runtimes when retrieving page labels advisory · PyPI