Security Advisory

CVE-2026-49461

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-06-22 20:27:16
Last updated 2026-06-23 15:54:54
Assigner GitHub_M
CVSS score 6.9
State PUBLISHED

Description

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.12.2, 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. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.12.2.