Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pypdf package, versions [,6.7.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYPDF-15309551
  • published19 Feb 2026
  • disclosed18 Feb 2026
  • creditCheonWoong-Park

Introduced: 18 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-27026  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pypdf to version 6.7.1 or higher.

Overview

pypdf is an A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming PDF files

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the FlateDecode class. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption with a malicious PDF file containing a malformed /FlateDecode stream that triggers byte-by-byte decompression.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1