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4.8 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): Passive (P)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): Passive (P)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
created 3 weeks, 1 day ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion 3 weeks, 1 day ago
pypdf: Possible large memory usage for large /ToUnicode streams

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.15.0, a crafted PDF can cause large memory consumption when pypdf/_cmap.py function parse_bfrange parses unusually large source-code or destination-string tokens in a font /ToUnicode CMap during text extraction. This issue is fixed in 6.15.0.

Affected products

pypdf
  • ==< 6.15.0

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