CVE-2025-64512

Pdfminer.six is a community maintained fork of the original PDFMiner, a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. Prior to version 20251107, pdfminer.six will execute arbitrary code from a malicious pickle file if provided with a malicious PDF file. The CMapDB.loaddata function in...

GHSA-WF5F-4JWR-PPCP Arbitrary Code Execution in pdfminer.six via Crafted PDF Input

Summary pdfminer.six will execute arbitrary code from a malicious pickle file if provided with a malicious PDF file. The CMapDB.loaddata function in pdfminer.six uses pickle.loads to deserialize pickle files. These pickle files are supposed to be part of the pdfminer.six distribution stored in th...

py-pdfminer.six -- Arbitrary Code Execution in pdfminer.six via Crafted PDF Input

Pieter Marsman reports: pdfminer.six will execute arbitrary code from a malicious pickle file if provided with a malicious PDF file. The CMapDB.loaddata function in pdfminer.six uses pickle.loads to deserialize pickle files. These pickle files are supposed to be part of the pdfminer.six...