High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 2, 2026· Updated Aug 21, 2026
CVE-2026-38970
CVE-2026-38970
Description
pdfcpu through v0.11.1 contains an uncontrolled-recursion denial-of-service issue in pkg/pdfcpu/model/parse.go. The parser descends recursively through nested PDF objects, including arrays, via ParseObjectContext() and parseArray() without enforcing a maximum nesting depth.
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References
4- github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/blob/a181c19acb322d6b93a1bbda9385a864a9ad6efe/pkg/pdfcpu/model/parse.gonvd
- github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/blob/a181c19acb322d6b93a1bbda9385a864a9ad6efe/pkg/pdfcpu/model/parse.gonvd
- github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/commit/9db810afb52b555ffcae955b32c0be3a73eb53d3nvd
- github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/releases/tag/v0.12.0nvd
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