CVE-2026-59936: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in py-pdf pypdf
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.14.1, an attacker can craft a PDF with a page content stream containing a not terminated inline image, causing an infinite loop during inline image end marker detection such as when extracting page text. This issue is fixed in version 6.14.1.
CVE-2026-59936: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in py-pdf pypdf
Description
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.14.1, an attacker can craft a PDF with a page content stream containing a not terminated inline image, causing an infinite loop during inline image end marker detection such as when extracting page text. This issue is fixed in version 6.14.1.
CVSS v4.0
Score 8.7high
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- GitHub_M
- Date Reserved
- 2026-07-07T18:20:06.127Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a4ea889c9d9e3dbe3a526b1
Added to database: 07/08/2026, 19:44:09 UTC
Last updated: 07/08/2026, 19:44:09 UTC
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