CVE-2026-119204
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Received - Intake
Memory Exhaustion in PyPDF Due to Unbounded Page-Tree Flattening
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-119204, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-29
Last updated on: 2026-10-29
Assigner: GitHub, Inc.
Description
Description
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.21.4, pypdf can consume excessive memory while parsing a crafted PDF page tree containing many shared resources. Page-tree flattening copies page dictionary and inherited resource entries without a document-wide entry budget, allowing the crafted resource structure to cause disproportionate allocations. This issue is fixed in version 6.21.4.
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-400 | The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource. |