CVE-2026-49461

ADVISORY - github

Summary

Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires extracting the text of a page which contains a form XObject with self-references.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.12.2.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3805.

EPSS Score⁠: 0.00123 (0.024)

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

ADVISORY - github

CWE-400⁠

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Impacted images

Advisories

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