pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.16.1, an attacker can craft a PDF that causes pypdf/page.py PageObject.extracttext and PageObject.extractxform_text to traverse a directed acyclic graph of reused form XObjects in which each form invokes a child multiple times, creating exponentially many traversal paths and causing long runtimes and large memory consumption. This issue is fixed in version 6.16.1.
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/84xxx/CVE-2026-84311.json",
"cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-834"
]
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