Upstream information

CVE-2025-64512 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (GitHub)
Base Score 8.6
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1253228 [IN_PROGRESS]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6
  • python3-pdfminer.six >= 20200124-bp156.4.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2025-429
openSUSE Leap 15.6
  • python3-pdfminer.six >= 20200124-bp156.4.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2025-429
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • python311-pdfminer.six >= 20251107-1.1
  • python312-pdfminer.six >= 20251107-1.1
  • python313-pdfminer.six >= 20251107-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15727

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Nov 11 00:03:35 2025
CVE page last modified: Fri Nov 21 12:40:02 2025