GHSA-hqmh-ppp3-xvm7

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hqmh-ppp3-xvm7
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/03/GHSA-hqmh-ppp3-xvm7/GHSA-hqmh-ppp3-xvm7.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-hqmh-ppp3-xvm7
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Published
2026-03-11T00:14:02Z
Modified
2026-03-14T07:44:01.164534Z
Severity
  • 6.8 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
pypdf: manipulated stream length values can exhaust RAM
Details

Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing a content stream with a rather large /Length value, regardless of the actual data length inside the stream.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.8.0.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3675.

As far as we are aware, this mostly affects reading from buffers of unknown size, as returned by open("file.pdf", mode="rb") for example. Passing a file path or a BytesIO buffer to pypdf instead does not seem to trigger the vulnerability.

Database specific 
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-03-10T22:16:20Z",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-03-11T00:14:02Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed": true
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / pypdf

Package

Name
pypdf
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:pypi/pypdf

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.8.0

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

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/03/GHSA-hqmh-ppp3-xvm7/GHSA-hqmh-ppp3-xvm7.json"