PYSEC-2026-3025 pypdf: Manipulated XMP metadata streams can exhaust RAM

Impact An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing large XMP metadata, possibly with lots of unnecessary elements. Patches This has been fixed in pypdf==6.12.1. Workarounds If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the change...

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Overview pypdf is an A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming PDF files Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the parsing process. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption b...

CVE-2026-48735

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.12.1, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing large XMP metadata, possibly with lots of unnecessary elements. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.12.1...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-48735

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.12.1, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing large XMP metadata, possibly with lots of unnecessary elements. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.12.1...

CVE-2026-48735 pypdf: Manipulated XMP metadata streams can exhaust RAM

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.12.1, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing large XMP metadata, possibly with lots of unnecessary elements. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.12.1...

CVE-2026-48735

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.12.1, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing large XMP metadata, possibly with lots of unnecessary elements. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.12.1...

PT-2026-44399

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pypdf versions prior to 6.12.1 Description An attacker can craft a PDF file that causes excessive memory consumption during the parsing of large XMP metadata, which may contain numerous unnecessary elements. Recommendations Update to version...