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CVE-2026-38970
pdfcpu Uncontrolled Recursion Denial-of-Service
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.

INFO

Published Date :

July 2, 2026, midnight

Last Modified :

July 2, 2026, 8:44 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No

Source :

mitre
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-38970 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

No affected product recoded yet

Solution
Update pdfcpu to a version that enforces maximum nesting depth for objects.
  • Update pdfcpu to the latest version.
  • Apply patches to enforce object nesting limits.

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