CVE-2026-82398

Description

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.15.0, an attacker can craft a PDF that causes long runtimes when the pypdf/_utils.py function read_until_whitespace reads a stream containing a long run of bytes without whitespace. The function repeatedly performs immutable bytes concatenation in a one-byte loop, causing quadratic processing cost for the long non-whitespace input. This issue is fixed in version 6.15.0.

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Weakness Type (CWE)

CWE-407 CWE-407

References

Other References

https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/4959848e057e37c218dccad7465259210923faaa https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3947 https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.15.0 https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-fc8x-2rww-xw9m

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2026-82398? +

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.15.0, an attacker can craft a PDF that causes long runtimes when the pypdf/_utils.py function read_until_whitespace reads a stream containing a long run of bytes without whitespace. The function repeatedly performs immutable bytes concatenation in a one-byte loop, causing quadratic processing cost for the long non-whitespace input. This issue is fixed in version 6.15.0.

How do I check if I'm vulnerable to CVE-2026-82398? +

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