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Details of issue NIXPKGS-2026-1801

NIXPKGS-2026-1801
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Permalink CVE-2026-48735
6.9 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): High (H)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): High (H)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
updated 11 hours ago by @LeSuisse Activity log
  • Created suggestion 2 days, 21 hours ago
  • @LeSuisse ignored
    10 packages
    • capypdf
    • python312Packages.pypdf2
    • python312Packages.pypdf3
    • python313Packages.pypdf2
    • python313Packages.pypdf3
    • python314Packages.pypdf2
    • python314Packages.pypdf3
    • python312Packages.pypdfium2
    • python313Packages.pypdfium2
    • python314Packages.pypdfium2
    2 days, 15 hours ago
  • @LeSuisse accepted 2 days, 15 hours ago
  • @LeSuisse published on GitHub 11 hours ago
pypdf: Manipulated XMP metadata streams can exhaust RAM

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.12.1, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing large XMP metadata, possibly with lots of unnecessary elements. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.12.1.

Affected products

pypdf
  • ==< 6.12.1

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.python312Packages.pypdf

Pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files

pkgs.python314Packages.pypdf

Pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files

Ignored packages (10)

Package maintainers

Patch: https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/62191d5a5c3ee218856d3cbaa039366bc97909f7