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CVE-2026-82398

pypdf: Inefficient handling of non-whitespace inputs in read_until_whitespace PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
py-pdf / pypdfaffected < 6.15.0

CWE

CWE-407

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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