🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2026-22691
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.6.0, pypdf has possible long runtimes for malformed startxref. An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to possibly long runtimes for invalid startxref entries. When rebuilding the cross-reference table, PDF files with lots of whitespace characters become problematic. Only the non-strict reading mode is affected. Only the non-strict reading mode is affected. This issue has been patched in version 6.6.0.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-01-10
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-05-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
pypdf
pypdf2

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