Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting pymupdfpro package, versions [,1.26.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYMUPDFPRO-12672500
  • published15 Sept 2025
  • disclosed4 Aug 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-46206  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade PyMuPDFPro to version 1.26.1 or higher.

Overview

PyMuPDFPro is a Commercial extensions for PyMuPDF; enables Office document handling, including doc, docx, hwp, hwpx, ppt, pptx, xls, xls, and others. Supports text and table extraction, document conversion and more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion when processing a crafted PDF file containing cyclic /Next references in the outline structure via the strip_outline function. An attacker can cause the application to enter an infinite recursion and crash by submitting a specially crafted PDF file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1