Infinite loop Affecting pypdf2 package, versions [,1.27.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYPDF2-2766479
  • published18 Apr 2022
  • disclosed17 Apr 2022
  • creditSebastian Krause

Introduced: 17 Apr 2022

CVE-2022-24859  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade PyPDF2 to version 1.27.5 or higher.

Overview

PyPDF2 is an A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming PDF files

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite loop when trying to get the content stream of a crafted PDF.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1