CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
36.1%
pypdf is a pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files. In version 2.10.5 an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This infinite loop blocks the current process and can utilize a single core of the CPU by 100%. It does not affect memory usage. That is, for example, the case if the user extracted metadata from such a malformed PDF. Versions prior to 2.10.5 throw an error, but do not hang forever. This issue was fixed with https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/1331 which has been included in release 2.10.6. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should modify PyPDF2/generic/_data_structures.py::read_object
to an an error throwing case. See GHSA-hm9v-vj3r-r55m for details.
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
pypdf_project | pypdf | 2.10.5 | cpe:2.3:a:pypdf_project:pypdf:2.10.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
[
{
"vendor": "py-pdf",
"product": "pypdf",
"versions": [
{
"version": "2.10.5",
"status": "affected"
}
]
}
]
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
36.1%