pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.21.3, pypdf can take excessive time to retrieve page labels from a crafted PDF containing a flat page-label number tree with many ranges. The page_labels property resolves each page independently and repeatedly scans the same /Nums array from the beginning, causing work to grow with both the page count and the number of label ranges. This issue is fixed in version 6.21.3.
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| Description | pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.21.3, pypdf can take excessive time to retrieve page labels from a crafted PDF containing a flat page-label number tree with many ranges. The page_labels property resolves each page independently and repeatedly scans the same /Nums array from the beginning, causing work to grow with both the page count and the number of label ranges. This issue is fixed in version 6.21.3. | |
| Title | pypdf: Possible long runtimes when retrieving page labels | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-29T20:37:15.057Z
Reserved: 2026-10-29T16:04:48.729Z
Link: CVE-2026-119206
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-29T21:17:19.817
Modified: 2026-10-29T21:17:19.817
Link: CVE-2026-119206
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-10-29T21:30:15Z
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