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ubuntu-cve-2023-36810

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. An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to unexpected long runtime. This quadratic runtime blocks the current process and can utilize a single core of the CPU by 100%. It does not affect memory usage. This issue has been addressed in PR 808 and versions from 1.27.9 include this fix. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-36810	REPORT
	https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/issues/582	REPORT
	https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisori…	REPORT
	https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/808	REPORT
	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6280-1	ADVISORY
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-36810	REPORT

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CVE-2023-36810 (GCVE-0-2023-36810)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-30 18:43 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:56

Title

Quadratic runtime with malformed PDF missing xref marker in pypdf

Summary

Severity

6.2 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-11-04 21:19 UTC

CWE

CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisori…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/issues/582	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/808	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
py-pdf	pypdf	Affected: < 1.27.9

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usn-6280-1

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2023-08-10 00:19

Modified

2026-06-25 10:46

Summary

pypdf2 vulnerability

Details

It was discovered that PyPDF2 incorrectly handled PDF files with certain markers. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to consume system resources, resulting in a denial of service.

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6280-1	ADVISORY
	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-36810	REPORT

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
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ubuntu-cve-2023-36810

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2023-36810 (GCVE-0-2023-36810)

usn-6280-1

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

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