GHSA-9mx8-4j7g-633p

pypdf: Possible infinite loop when removing tree items

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2026-113793
CVSS_V4
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

### Impact An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires removing an object from a tree, for example an outline item. ### Patches This has been fixed in [pypdf==6.20.1](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.20.1). ### Workarounds If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR [#4188](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/4188).

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · pypdfintroduced 0, fixed 6.20.1

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database