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[GHSA] GHSA-fwg2-594c-jp42 (medium) — pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage for large CID font width ranges
GHSA-fwg2-594c-jp42 Severity: medium CVE: CVE-2026-71852
pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage for large CID font width ranges
### Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes and large memory consumption. This requires parsing the font width entries of a font with unusually large values, for example during text extraction.
### Patches
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-71852cve
Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fwg2-594c-jp42