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

2026-10-28T02:31:08Z

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

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

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu

Events

Introduced

Fixed

9db810afb52b555ffcae955b32c0be3a73eb53d3

Fixed

bce72711fbfa2fc3575d0cb0f431fe0fc4b9b691

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "0.11.1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "DESCRIPTION"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "9db810afb52b555ffcae955b32c0be3a73eb53d3"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "v0.12.0",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "bce72711fbfa2fc3575d0cb0f431fe0fc4b9b691"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

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

v0.11.1

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"