GHSA-3crg-w4f6-42mx

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3crg-w4f6-42mx
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/04/GHSA-3crg-w4f6-42mx/GHSA-3crg-w4f6-42mx.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-3crg-w4f6-42mx
Aliases
  • CVE-2026-40260
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-04-10T20:59:36Z
Modified
2026-05-05T15:59:51.219677Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
  • 6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
pypdf: Manipulated XMP metadata entity declarations can exhaust RAM
Details

Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing the XMP metadata.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.10.0.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3724.

Database specific 
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    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-04-10T20:59:36Z",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-04-17T01:17:39Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-776"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / pypdf

Package

Name
pypdf
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Purl
pkg:pypi/pypdf

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.10.0

Affected versions

1.*
1.0
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
1.10
1.11
1.12
1.13
3.*
3.1.0
3.2.0
3.2.1
3.3.0
3.4.0
3.4.1
3.5.0
3.5.1
3.5.2
3.6.0
3.7.0
3.7.1
3.8.0
3.8.1
3.9.0
3.9.1
3.10.0
3.11.0
3.11.1
3.12.0
3.12.1
3.12.2
3.13.0
3.14.0
3.15.0
3.15.1
3.15.2
3.15.3
3.15.4
3.15.5
3.16.0
3.16.1
3.16.2
3.16.3
3.16.4
3.17.0
3.17.1
3.17.2
3.17.3
3.17.4
4.*
4.0.0
4.0.1
4.0.2
4.1.0
4.2.0
4.3.0
4.3.1
5.*
5.0.0
5.0.1
5.1.0
5.2.0
5.3.0
5.3.1
5.4.0
5.5.0
5.6.0
5.6.1
5.7.0
5.8.0
5.9.0
6.*
6.0.0
6.1.0
6.1.1
6.1.2
6.1.3
6.2.0
6.3.0
6.4.0
6.4.1
6.4.2
6.5.0
6.6.0
6.6.1
6.6.2
6.7.0
6.7.1
6.7.2
6.7.3
6.7.4
6.7.5
6.8.0
6.9.0
6.9.1
6.9.2

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/04/GHSA-3crg-w4f6-42mx/GHSA-3crg-w4f6-42mx.json"