CVE-2026-84311

ADVISORY - github

Summary

Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes and large memory consumption. This requires extracting the text of a page with lots of XForm objects, where some of them might be re-used.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.16.1.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3966.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

ADVISORY - nist

CWE-834⁠

Excessive Iteration

ADVISORY - github

CWE-834⁠

Excessive Iteration

ADVISORY - redhat

CWE-770⁠

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Impacted images

Advisories

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