CVE-2026-54080
Received Received - Intake

Denial-of-Service in veraPDF PDF Parser via Type 0 Font

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-54080, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-07-29

Last updated on: 2026-07-29

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

veraPDF PDF parser is a PDF parser for veraPDF. Prior to 1.30.2 and 1.31.23, veraPDF-parser contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in veraPDF-parser/src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/cmap/CMapParser.java and veraPDF-parser/src/main/java/org/verapdf/parser/postscript/PSOperator.java, where a crafted Type 0 font /Encoding or /ToUnicode CMap stream can execute unbounded PostScript array allocation or a zero-increment for loop and exhaust validator memory or CPU. This issue is fixed in versions 1.30.2 and 1.31.23.

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Published
2026-07-29
Last Modified
2026-07-29
Generated
2026-07-30
EPSS Evaluated
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Affected Vendors & Products

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Vendor Product Version / Range
verapdf verapdf-parser to 1.30.2 (exc)
verapdf verapdf-parser to 1.31.23 (exc)

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CWE-1325 The product manages a group of objects or resources and performs a separate memory allocation for each object, but it does not properly limit the total amount of memory that is consumed by all of the combined objects.

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