CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-38970
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-07-02
- Last modified
- 2026-08-21
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-674
Description
pdfcpu through v0.11.1 contains an uncontrolled-recursion denial-of-service issue in pkg/pdfcpu/model/parse.go. The parser descends recursively through nested PDF objects, including arrays, via ParseObjectContext() and parseArray() without enforcing a maximum nesting depth.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness
References
- https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu github.com
- https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/blob/a181c19acb322d6b93a1bbda9385a864a9ad6efe/pkg/pdfcpu/model/parse.go#L325-L366 github.com
- https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/blob/a181c19acb322d6b93a1bbda9385a864a9ad6efe/pkg/pdfcpu/model/parse.go#L942-L970 github.com
- https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/commit/9db810afb52b555ffcae955b32c0be3a73eb53d3 github.com
- https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/releases/tag/v0.12.0 github.com