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SCA: security update for PyPDF2 (GHSA-jrm6-h9cq-8gqw)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416570

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - pypdf is a pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of
 PDF files. An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to unexpected long runtime.
 This quadratic runtime blocks the current process and can utilize a single core of the CPU by 100%. It
 does not affect memory usage. This issue has been addressed in PR 808 and versions from 1.27.9 include
 this fix. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
 (CVE-2023-36810)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jrm6-h9cq-8gqw

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416570

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-36810

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-36810

cwe: CWE-407