pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.4.0, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to a memory usage of up to 1 GB per stream. This requires parsing the content stream of a page using the LZWDecode filter. This issue has been patched in version 6.4.0.
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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:45:00 +0000
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| Description | pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.4.0, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to a memory usage of up to 1 GB per stream. This requires parsing the content stream of a page using the LZWDecode filter. This issue has been patched in version 6.4.0. | |
| Title | pypdf manipulated LZWDecode streams can exhaust RAM | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-400 CWE-409 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2025-11-25T23:38:12.473Z
Updated: 2025-11-26T16:12:49.920Z
Reserved: 2025-11-21T01:08:02.613Z
Link: CVE-2025-66019
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Status : Received
Published: 2025-11-26T00:15:51.263
Modified: 2025-11-26T00:15:51.263
Link: CVE-2025-66019
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