pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.21.4, pypdf can consume excessive memory while parsing a crafted PDF page tree containing many shared resources. Page-tree flattening copies page dictionary and inherited resource entries without a document-wide entry budget, allowing the crafted resource structure to cause disproportionate allocations. This issue is fixed in version 6.21.4.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.1 · py-pdfNVD modified 2026-10-29 20:34
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 4
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-cggf-277g-3q54 x_refsource_confirm
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/4290 x_refsource_misc
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/ea4ac663133f1b3de1d7a8f2e6fa239802fde79e x_refsource_misc
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.21.4 x_refsource_misc