CVE-2026-28804
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2026-03-06
- Fixed in6.7.5
- WeaknessCWE-407
Am I affected?
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Description
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.7.5, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes. This requires accessing a stream which uses the /ASCIIHexDecode filter. This issue has been patched in version 6.7.5.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2026-03-0607:16CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2026-28804?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2026-28804?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD · OSV| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.7 | < 6.7.5 | 6.7.5 | NVD · OSV |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Distribution builds and vendor advisories
Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.
version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.
Vendor advisories
pypdf: pypdf: Denial of Service via crafted PDF with ASCIIHexDecode filter
openshift-lightspeed-tech-preview/lightspeed-rag-tool-rhel9 as a component of OpenShift Lightspeed · openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-ocp-rag-rhel9 as a component of OpenShift Lightspeed · openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-service-api-rhel9 as a component of OpenShift Lightspeed · +3 more
Fix
- Update Pypdf project pypdf to 6.7.5
- Workaround from the vendor Red Hat Product Security CVE-2026-28804 · 6 productsTo mitigate this issue, avoid processing untrusted PDF documents with applications that use the pypdf library. If processing untrusted PDFs is unavoidable, consider sandboxing the application responsible for PDF processing to limit potential resource exhaustion.
- No fix available, says the vendor Red Hat Product Security CVE-2026-28804 · 6 productsFix deferred
Advisories and patches
- github.comPatch
- github.comPatch
- github.comRelease Notes
- github.comPatch · Vendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 4.0 vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Published
- 2026-03-06
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Analyzed
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