CVE-2026-41168

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
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 83% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: April 22, 2026 (78 days ago)
Last Modified: April 22, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A flaw was found in pypdf. An attacker can craft a malicious PDF file containing oversized cross-reference streams or object streams. Processing such a file can lead to excessively long runtimes, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for applications using the pypdf library.

CWE

CWE-1284

Affected Products

Lightspeed CoreOpenShift LightspeedRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)Red Hat Quay 3

References

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