AIKIDO-2025-10548
pypdf is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)
50
Medium Risk
This Affects:
pypdfTL;DR
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to denial of service due to full decompression of nested FlateDecode streams, allowing a small malicious PDF to expand to over 1 PB and exhaust system resources.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.
Background info
pypdf is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in versions 1.0 - 5.9.0.
How to fix this
Upgrade the pypdf library to the patch version.
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