UNKNOWN PyPI
pypdf: Possible infinite loop for not terminated inline images
PYSEC-2026-3612 · CVE-2026-59936 · GHSA-5xf7-4p34-54qr
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Description
Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires parsing the content stream of a page with a not terminated inline image, as done when extracting the page text for example.
Patches
This has been fixed in pypdf==6.14.1.
Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3891.
References
- WEB https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-5xf7-4p34-54qr
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59936
- WEB https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3891
- WEB https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/ec3b14596186c40caca7cf8ab9b2155203e01b5b
- PACKAGE https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf
- WEB https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.14.1
- PACKAGE https://pypi.org/project/pypdf
- ADVISORY https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5xf7-4p34-54qr
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