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[GHSA] GHSA-fp3f-mc75-235c (medium) — pypdf: Possible large memory usage for large /ToUnicode streams
GHSA-fp3f-mc75-235c Severity: medium CVE: CVE-2026-71870
pypdf: Possible large memory usage for large /ToUnicode streams
### Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory consumption. This requires parsing the `/ToUnicode` entry of a font with unusually large values, for example during text extraction.
### Patches
This has been fixed in [pypdf==6.1
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-71870cve
Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fp3f-mc75-235c