CVE•Published 2026-08-31•Modified 2026-09-09•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-82398
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
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EPSS percentile
22
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 78% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.15.0, an attacker can craft a PDF that causes long runtimes when the pypdf/_utils.py function read_until_whitespace reads a stream containing a long run of bytes without whitespace. The function repeatedly performs immutable bytes concatenation in a one-byte loop, causing quadratic processing cost for the long non-whitespace input. This issue is fixed in version 6.15.0.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-31
Modified 2026-09-09
External references
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