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Possible infinite loop for not terminated inline images

Moderate
stefan6419846 published GHSA-5xf7-4p34-54qr Jun 23, 2026

Package

pip pypdf (pip)

Affected versions

< 6.14.1

Patched versions

>= 6.14.1

Description

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.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.14.1.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3891.

Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

No known CVE

Weaknesses

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop. Learn more on MITRE.

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