pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.0.0, an attacker can craft a PDF which leads to the RAM being exhausted. This requires just reading the file if a series of FlateDecode filters is used on a malicious cross-reference stream. Other content streams are affected on explicit access. This issue has been fixed in 6.0.0. If an update is not possible, a workaround involves including the fixed code from pypdf.filters.decompress into the existing filters file.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400",
"CWE-770"
],
"cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/55xxx/CVE-2025-55197.json"
}{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pypdf_project:pypdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "6.0.0"
}
],
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"CPE_RANGE",
"REFERENCES"
]
}