Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pypdf package, versions [,6.21.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYPDF-21427279
  • published22 Oct 2026
  • disclosed21 Oct 2026
  • creditAmmar Chechatwala

Introduced: 21 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-113790  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pypdf to version 6.21.0 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 unbounded stream parsing in the PDF content stream parser, which imposes no limit on the total number of tokens, array elements, or dictionary key-value pairs processed per stream. An attacker can supply a PDF containing a stream that generates an excessive number of parsed objects, causing unbounded memory consumption and crashing the process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1