Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pypdf package, versions [,6.18.1)


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-20415634
  • published3 Oct 2026
  • disclosed1 Oct 2026
  • creditjungmingi-lab

Introduced: 1 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-102995  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pypdf to version 6.18.1 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 via parse_bfchar in pypdf/_cmap.py, where an attacker can supply a PDF containing a malformed or oversized CMap token to trigger unbounded processing, crashing the parser. The fix introduces token length validation via _check_token_length and additional structural checks on CMap lines, neither of which existed before.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1