Fluid Attacks Database

Description

pypdf: Possible infinite loop for not terminated inline images (ASCII85 and ASCIIHex filter)

Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires parsing the content stream of a page with a not terminated inline image, as done when extracting the page text for example. It only affects the ASCII85 and ASCIIHex filters.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.14.2.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3892.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
debian 12	pypdf	=3.17.4-1 \|\| =3.4.1-1 \|\| =3.4.1-1+deb12u1 \|\| =4.0.0-1 \|\| =4.0.0-1~exp1 \|\| =4.0.1-1 \|\| =4.0.2-1 \|\| =4.1.0-1 \|\| =4.2.0-1 \|\| =4.3.1-1 \|\| =5.4.0-1 \|\| =6.9.0-1 \|\| =6.9.2-1 \|\| =6.9.2-2	-
debian 13	pypdf	=5.4.0-1 \|\| =6.9.0-1 \|\| =6.9.2-1 \|\| =6.9.2-2	-
debian 14	pypdf	=5.4.0-1 \|\| =6.9.0-1 \|\| =6.9.2-1 \|\| =6.9.2-2	-
debian 11	pypdf2	=1.26.0-4 \|\| =1.26.0-4+deb11u1 \|\| =1.27.12-1 \|\| =1.27.9-1 \|\| =2.0.0-1 \|\| =2.10.0-1 \|\| =2.10.2-1 \|\| =2.10.3-1 \|\| =2.10.4-1 \|\| =2.10.5-1 \|\| =2.10.7-1 \|\| =2.10.9-1 \|\| =2.11.0-1 \|\| =2.11.1-1 \|\| =2.11.2-1 \|\| =2.12.1-1 \|\| =2.12.1-2 \|\| =2.12.1-3 \|\| =2.12.1-4 \|\| =2.4.1-1 \|\| =2.4.2-1 \|\| =2.6.0-1 \|\| =2.8.1-1 \|\| =2.9.0-1	-
debian 12	pypdf2	=2.12.1-3 \|\| =2.12.1-3+deb12u1 \|\| =2.12.1-4	-
pypi	pypdf	>=0 <6.14.2	6.14.2

Aliases

1. CVE-2026-599352. NVD-2026-599353. OSV-DEBIAN-2026-599354. OSV-2026-599355. GHSA-g867-7843-wf8q6. GCVE-2026-599357. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2026-59935

References

1. https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-g867-7843-wf8q2. https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/38923. https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/5a33a46416aa1ae6c025ff90a3cca57631fdafd24. https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.14.2

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