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SCA: security update for fpdf2 (GHSA-wqw6-wpr3-45rh)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 477653

Description

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

 - fpdf2 is a PDF creation library for Python. From 2.5.0 until 2.8.8, fpdf2's SVGObject.build_xref() passes
 nested SVG <use> references to GraphicsContext.add_item(), whose default clone=True deep-copy behavior
 copies the complete referenced graphics tree during FPDF.image() processing. Repeating references at each
 nesting level makes the in-memory object count and processing work grow exponentially, allowing a small
 user-controlled SVG to consume excessive CPU and memory, raise MemoryError, fail PDF generation jobs, and
 reduce or exhaust worker capacity. ResourceAccessPolicy does not prevent the issue because the references
 are inline and require no external resource, XML entity, local file, or permissive network setting. This
 issue is fixed in version 2.8.8. (CVE-2026-114610)

Solution

Update the fpdf2 library and its related packages to version 2.8.8 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wqw6-wpr3-45rh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 477653

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/27/2026

Updated: 10/27/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-114610

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-114610

cwe: CWE-400