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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2026-40260
CVE-2026-40260:
Python vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing the XMP metadata.
Patches
This has been fixed in pypdf==6.10.0.
Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3724.
Source: NVD
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