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GHSA-xcjx-m2pj-8g79
No affected components available
Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop if the PyPDF2 user wrote the following code:
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter
from PyPDF2.pdf import ContentStream
reader = PdfFileReader("malicious.pdf", strict=False)
for page in reader.pages:
ContentStream(page.getContents(), reader)
Patches
PyPDF2==1.27.5 and later are patched.
Credits to Sebastian Krause for finding (issue) and fixing (PR) it.
The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.
Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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