Upstream information
Description
pdfminer.six before 20251230 contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability in the CMap loading mechanism. The library uses Python pickle to deserialize CMap cache files without validation. An attacker with the ability to place a malicious pickle file in a location accessible to the application can trigger arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation when the file is loaded by a trusted process. This is caused by an incomplete patch to CVE-2025-64512.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products
This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1257639 [NEW] No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Tue Feb 3 20:04:35 2026CVE page last modified: Tue Feb 3 23:47:50 2026