CVE-2026-48735: Pypdf Project Pypdf

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Project Pypdf: before 6.12.1 (fixed in 6.12.1)

Published 2026-05-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.