Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting setasign/fpdi package, versions <2.6.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-SETASIGNFPDI-11483965
  • published6 Aug 2025
  • disclosed5 Aug 2025
  • creditN0zoM1z0

Introduced: 5 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-54869  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade setasign/fpdi to version 2.6.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the PdfType::resolve() which evaluates indirect and direct object references until a final value is reached. An attacker can cause memory exhaustion and crash the server by uploading a specially crafted PDF file.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1