Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pypdf package, versions [,6.19.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYPDF-20415628
  • published3 Oct 2026
  • disclosed1 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-103000  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pypdf to version 6.19.0 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 via number2uppercase_letter (and its lowercase counterpart) in _page_labels.py when processing a PDF with a large alphabetical page label index. Because no upper bound is enforced on the repetition count before constructing the label string, an attacker can supply a PDF whose page label numbering scheme maps to an arbitrarily large integer, causing the process to allocate an unbounded string and crash the application.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1