Medium [CVE-2026-59935] Denial of Service via crafted PDF with unterminated inline image
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-59935 affecting Exploit Intelligence, OpenShift Lightspeed, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.
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Summary
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.14.2, an attacker can craft a PDF with a page content stream containing a not terminated inline image that uses the ASCII85 or ASCIIHex filters, causing an infinite loop during parsing such as when extracting page text.
This issue is fixed in version 6.14.2. When this crafted PDF is parsed, it can lead to an infinite loop, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) due to resource exhaustion.
This Moderate flaw in the pypdf library allows a remote attacker to trigger a denial of service by providing a specially crafted PDF file. While requiring user interaction to process a malicious PDF, the issue can lead to service unavailability in applications utilizing pypdf for PDF processing.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-606.
Affected Red Hat products: Exploit Intelligence; OpenShift Lightspeed; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2; Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3; Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI); Red Hat Quay 3. Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
- < 6.14.2
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Mitigation checklist
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 10 days ago·verify at source
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