Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pypdf package, versions [,6.21.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYPDF-22132196
  • published2 Nov 2026
  • disclosed30 Oct 2026
  • creditsmaeljaish771

Introduced: 30 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-119204  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pypdf to version 6.21.4 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 _flatten_leaf_page function in pypdf/_doc_common.py, where processing a malicious PDF with an excessive number of page dictionary entries during page tree flattening causes unbounded resource consumption, crashing the process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1