Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pypdf package, versions [,6.20.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYPDF-21427272
  • published22 Oct 2026
  • disclosed21 Oct 2026
  • creditPriyank N

Introduced: 21 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-113795  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pypdf to version 6.20.0 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 the decode_stream_data function in pypdf/filters.py, where a PDF stream containing an excessive number of chained filters or filters that expand data across multiple decode passes can cause unbounded CPU and memory consumption. An attacker can supply a malicious PDF that triggers this condition, crashing the process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1