Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pypdf package, versions [,6.12.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYPDF-17054919
  • published29 May 2026
  • disclosed28 May 2026
  • creditThai Son Dinh (sondt)

Introduced: 28 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-48155  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pypdf to version 6.12.0 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 layout mode text extraction process when handling PDFs with large character offsets. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption by crafting a PDF with large offsets and triggering text extraction in layout mode.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1