CVE-2025-64512
Pdfminer.six is a community maintained fork of the original PDFMiner, a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. Prior to version 20251107, pdfminer.six will execute arbitrary code from a malicious pickle file if provided with a malicious PDF file. The CMapDB._load_data() function in pdfminer.six uses pickle.loads() to deserialize pickle files. These pickle files are supposed to be part of the pdfminer.six distribution stored in the cmap/ directory, but a malicious PDF can specify an alternative directory and filename as long as the filename ends in .pickle.gz. A malicious, zipped pickle file can then contain code which will automatically execute when the PDF is processed. Version 20251107 fixes the issue.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| pdfminer / pdfminer.six | - | 2025-11-07 |
| debian / debian_linux | 11.0 | 11.0.x |
- https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/commit/b808ee05dd7f0c8ea8ec34bdf394d40e63501086
- https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/releases/tag/20251107
- https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/security/advisories/GHSA-wf5f-4jwr-ppcp
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00005.html
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