ubuntu-cve-2023-36807
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2023-06-30 19:15
Modified
2025-07-16 05:09
Summary
Details

pypdf is a pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files. In version 2.10.5 an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This infinite loop blocks the current process and can utilize a single core of the CPU by 100%. It does not affect memory usage. That is, for example, the case if the user extracted metadata from such a malformed PDF. Versions prior to 2.10.5 throw an error, but do not hang forever. This issue was fixed with https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/1331 which has been included in release 2.10.6. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should modify PyPDF2/generic/_data_structures.py::read_object to an an error throwing case. See GHSA-hm9v-vj3r-r55m for details.

Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
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  "aliases": [],
  "details": "pypdf is a pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files. In version 2.10.5 an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This infinite loop blocks the current process and can utilize a single core of the CPU by 100%. It does not affect memory usage. That is, for example, the case if the user extracted metadata from such a malformed PDF. Versions prior to 2.10.5 throw an error, but do not hang forever. This issue was fixed with https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/1331 which has been included in release 2.10.6. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should modify `PyPDF2/generic/_data_structures.py::read_object` to an an error throwing case. See GHSA-hm9v-vj3r-r55m for details.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2023-36807",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T05:09:30Z",
  "published": "2023-06-30T19:15:00Z",
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-36807"
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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    {
      "score": "medium",
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    }
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    "CVE-2023-36807"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:54:32Z"
}



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