CVE-2026-27026

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published: February 20, 2026
Last Modified: February 20, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat

Description

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.7.1, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes. This requires a malformed /FlateDecode stream, where the byte-by-byte decompression is used. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.7.1.

CWE

CWE-1050

Affected Products

OpenShift LightspeedRed Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com 🔗 github.com