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CVE-2025-55197

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.03 BB Relevance: 73/100
Published: 2025-08-13 Modified: 2026-11-02 First seen: 2026-11-02 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: X
AT: None
VC: None
VI: None
VA: High

Description

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.0.0, an attacker can craft a PDF which leads to the RAM being exhausted. This requires just reading the file if a series of FlateDecode filters is used on a malicious cross-reference stream. Other content streams are affected on explicit access. This issue has been fixed in 6.0.0. If an update is not possible, a workaround involves including the fixed code from pypdf.filters.decompress into the existing filters file.

Weakness Classification (2)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
py-pdf pypdf < 6.0.0

References & Advisories (5)

Bug Bounty Relevance

73 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

6.6 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.51%
Raw Score 0.005070
Percentile 43.8%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00507
2026-11-12
0.00507
2026-11-10
0.00507
2026-11-09
0.00507
2026-11-08
0.00507
2026-11-07
0.00507
2026-11-06
0.00507
2026-11-05
0.00507
2026-11-04
0.00507
2026-11-03
0.00507
2026-11-02
0.00477

Intelligence Sources

nvd ref →

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