Bug 2496707 (CVE-2026-38970) - CVE-2026-38970 github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu: pdfcpu: Denial of Service via uncontrolled recursion in PDF parsing
Summary: CVE-2026-38970 github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu: pdfcpu: Denial of Service via uncont...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-38970
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2497727
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Reported: 2026-07-02 22:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-07 14:55 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-02 22:01:22 UTC 
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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