CVE-2026-38970

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-38970
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-38970.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-38970
Published
2026-07-02T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-07-08T08:11:23.964298846Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

pdfcpu through v0.11.1 contains an uncontrolled-recursion denial-of-service issue in pkg/pdfcpu/model/parse.go. The parser descends recursively through nested PDF objects, including arrays, via ParseObjectContext() and parseArray() without enforcing a maximum nesting depth.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/38xxx/CVE-2026-38970.json",
    "cna_assigner": "mitre"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
c4b560df8f597da81cfcd21eef1ed1fefbea6a34
Database specific 
{
    "source": "DESCRIPTION",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "v0.11.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.1.15
0.1.24
v0.*
v0.0.1
v0.0.2
v0.0.3
v0.0.4
v0.0.5
v0.0.6
v0.0.7
v0.1
v0.1.1
v0.1.10
v0.1.11
v0.1.12
v0.1.13
v0.1.14
v0.1.16
v0.1.17
v0.1.18
v0.1.19
v0.1.2
v0.1.20
v0.1.21
v0.1.22
v0.1.23
v0.1.24
v0.1.25
v0.1.3
v0.1.4
v0.1.5
v0.1.6
v0.1.7
v0.1.8
v0.1.9
v0.10.0
v0.10.1
v0.10.2
v0.11.0
v0.2
v0.2.1
v0.2.2
v0.2.3
v0.2.4
v0.2.5
v0.3
v0.3.1
v0.3.10
v0.3.11
v0.3.12
v0.3.13
v0.3.2
v0.3.3
v0.3.4
v0.3.5
v0.3.6
v0.3.7
v0.3.8
v0.3.9
v0.4.0
v0.4.1
v0.4.2
v0.5.0
v0.6.0
v0.7.0
v0.8.0
v0.8.1
v0.9.0
v0.9.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-38970.json"