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CVE-2025-55197

pypdf's Manipulated FlateDecode streams can exhaust RAM PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.0.0, an attacker can craft a PDF which leads to the RAM being exhausted. This requires just reading the file if a series of FlateDecode filters is used on a malicious cross-reference stream. Other content streams are affected on explicit access. This issue has been fixed in 6.0.0. If an update is not possible, a workaround involves including the fixed code from pypdf.filters.decompress into the existing filters file.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
py-pdf / pypdfaffected < 6.0.0

CWE

CWE-400, CWE-770

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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