PYSEC-2026-3025

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-07-13 15:46 - Updated: 2026-07-13 16:06
VLAI
Details

Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing large XMP metadata, possibly with lots of unnecessary elements.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.12.1.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3796.

Severity
6.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Impacted products
Name purl
pypdf pkg:pypi/pypdf
Aliases
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        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "pypdf",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/pypdf"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
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              "fixed": "6.12.1"
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        }
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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-48735",
    "GHSA-wjqc-6w8f-h24c"
  ],
  "details": "### Impact\n\nAn attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing large XMP metadata, possibly with lots of unnecessary elements.\n\n### Patches\nThis has been fixed in [pypdf==6.12.1](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.12.1).\n\n### Workarounds\nIf you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR [#3796](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3796).",
  "id": "PYSEC-2026-3025",
  "modified": "2026-07-13T16:06:02.277667Z",
  "published": "2026-07-13T15:46:17.422603Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-wjqc-6w8f-h24c"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48735"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3796"
    },
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
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    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.12.1"
    },
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    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "pypdf: Manipulated XMP metadata streams can exhaust RAM"
}



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