CVE-2023-36464 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting pypdf, pypdf2, and pypdf_project libraries, where a specially crafted PDF can trigger an infinite loop during text extraction. This local vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.5, requiring user interaction to process the malicious PDF, leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pypdf_project:pypdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pypdf2_project:pypdf2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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