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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | pypdf: Inefficient handling of non-whitespace inputs in read_until_whitespace | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-407 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-08-31T21:41:10.272Z
Updated: 2026-09-01T14:57:30.866Z
Reserved: 2026-08-28T22:00:43.512Z
Link: CVE-2026-82398
Updated: 2026-09-01T14:18:27.524Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-31T22:17:23.083
Modified: 2026-09-01T15:17:32.697
Link: CVE-2026-82398