CVE Explorer
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 speci
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"product":"pdfminer.six","vendor":"pdfminer","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"< 20251107"}]}
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Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"LOCAL","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":8.6,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"CHANGED","userInteraction":"REQUIRED","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cvssurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:208a61094e889604d993422a1f620fbe9ecc410af43606a70aaa26ae283b788e · sha256:23f2f651e9152b59… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-502","description":"CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:208a61094e889604d993422a1f620fbe9ecc410af43606a70aaa26ae283b788e · sha256:23f2f651e9152b59… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
6 source assertions{"name":"https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/commit/b808ee05dd7f0c8ea8ec34bdf394d40e63501086","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/commit/b808ee05dd7f0c8ea8ec34bdf394d40e63501086"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:208a61094e889604d993422a1f620fbe9ecc410af43606a70aaa26ae283b788e · sha256:23f2f651e9152b59… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"name":"https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/releases/tag/20251107","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/releases/tag/20251107"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:208a61094e889604d993422a1f620fbe9ecc410af43606a70aaa26ae283b788e · sha256:23f2f651e9152b59… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"name":"https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/security/advisories/GHSA-wf5f-4jwr-ppcp","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"],"url":"https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/security/advisories/GHSA-wf5f-4jwr-ppcp"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:208a61094e889604d993422a1f620fbe9ecc410af43606a70aaa26ae283b788e · sha256:23f2f651e9152b59… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"tags":["exploit"],"url":"https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/security/advisories/GHSA-wf5f-4jwr-ppcp"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:208a61094e889604d993422a1f620fbe9ecc410af43606a70aaa26ae283b788e · sha256:23f2f651e9152b59… · /containers/adp/0/references/0
{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00017.html"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:208a61094e889604d993422a1f620fbe9ecc410af43606a70aaa26ae283b788e · sha256:23f2f651e9152b59… · /containers/adp/1/references/0
{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00005.html"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:208a61094e889604d993422a1f620fbe9ecc410af43606a70aaa26ae283b788e · sha256:23f2f651e9152b59… · /containers/adp/1/references/1
Attribution and limitations
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