Algorithmic Complexity Affecting pypdf package, versions <6.19.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-PYPDF-19477303
  • published1 Sept 2026
  • disclosed31 Aug 2026

Introduced: 31 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-82398  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-407  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable pypdf to version 6.19.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pypdf package and not the pypdf package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.15.0, an attacker can craft a PDF that causes long runtimes when the pypdf/_utils.py function read_until_whitespace reads a stream containing a long run of bytes without whitespace. The function repeatedly performs immutable bytes concatenation in a one-byte loop, causing quadratic processing cost for the long non-whitespace input. This issue is fixed in version 6.15.0.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1