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[GHSA] GHSA-763m-79hh-57f2 (medium) — pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage when extracting XForm objects

medgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-09-01

GHSA-763m-79hh-57f2 Severity: medium CVE: CVE-2026-84311

pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage when extracting XForm objects

### Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes and large memory consumption. This requires extracting the text of a page with lots of XForm objects, where some of them might be re-used.

### Patches

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Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-763m-79hh-57f2