CVE-2025-62707 pypdf affected by possible infinite loop when reading DCT inline images without EOF marker

Medium 6.6 Published Updated

An attacker can cause a denial of service via infinite loop in pypdf by crafting a PDF with specific inline images.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2025-62707?

CVE-2025-62707 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Pypdf Project Pypdf, published on 22 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.1.3, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires parsing the content stream of a page which has an inline image using the DCTDecode filter. This has been fixed in pypdf version 6.1.3.

Weakness: CWE-834

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-62707?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including pypdf. It affects 1 product.

PackageAffectedFixed in
pypdf PyPIAll versions6.1.3
pypdf PyPIAll versions6.1.3
pypdf PyPIAll versions6.1.3
Linux distribution packages (1)
python-pypdf openSUSE:TumbleweedAll versions6.1.3-1.1

Products include Pypdf Project Pypdf.

How do I fix CVE-2025-62707?

Upgrade pypdf to 6.1.3 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2025-62707 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-62707 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Pypdf Project Pypdf vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as CLSA-2025-1765930342, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-62707, GHSA-vr63-x8vc-m265, PYSEC-2026-1833, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-62707, openSUSE-SU-2025:15664-1.

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