CVE-2026-27888

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.66.6
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

This medium-severity CVE scores 6.6 under the CNA's CVSS (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.4% (34th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from the CNA's CVSS
Sources: the CNA's CVSS, EPSS
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-8791 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-x7hp-r3qg-r3cj (GitHub Security Advisories) · PYSEC-2026-3027 (OSV.dev)Source: ENISA EUVD

6.6EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 6.6Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.7.3, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to the RAM being exhausted. This requires accessing the xfa property of a reader or writer and the corresponding stream being compressed using /FlateDecode. This has been fixed in pypdf 6.7.3. As a workaround, apply the patch manually.

CVSS v3
6.6
EG Score
6.6MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
45
EG Risk 45/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity66% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.6 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.4% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
34th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (6.6): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 6.6 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
6.6 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.the CNA's CVSS · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

February 26, 2026

Last Modified

June 23, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Aug 4, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github, github_pr, github_commit, github_release.
GitHub release Patch Available

Version 6.7.3, 2026-02-24

Patch available: py-pdf/pypdf 6.7.3

https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.7.3
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit 7a4c8246ed48 (py-pdf/pypdf)

Patch available: py-pdf/pypdf 6.7.3 (contains commit 7a4c8246ed48)

https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/7a4c8246ed48d9d328fb596942271da47b6d109c
GitHub pull request Patch Available

SEC: Use zlib decompression limit when retrieving XFA data

Patch available: py-pdf/pypdf 6.7.3 (PR #3658 merged 2026-02-24)

https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3658
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Manipulated FlateDecode XFA streams can exhaust RAM · Advisory · py-pdf/pypdf · GitHub

https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-x7hp-r3qg-r3cj

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-27888(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrhoai/odh-llama-stack-core-rhel9:17751444032026-04-23redhat
pippypdf @ 6.7.3 (fixes < 6.7.3)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(6 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
pypdf3.17.4-1 ... 6.9.2-2 (15 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
pypdf22.12.1-3, 2.12.1-3+deb12u1, 2.12.1-4
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
pypdf21.26.0-4 ... 2.9.0-1 (24 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
pypdf5.4.0-1, 6.19.0-1, 6.9.0-1, 6.9.2-1, 6.9.2-2
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
pypdf5.4.0-1
  • every version up to 6.9.0-1: fixed in 6.9.0-1
—
PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
pypdf1.0 ... 6.7.2 (91 versions)
  • every version up to 6.7.3: fixed in 6.7.3
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 42× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 96 of 167 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 4 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 71 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 07:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-x7hp-r3qg-r3cj · GitHub severity MODERATE
  3. 2026-11-01 07:56 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-31 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  5. 2026-10-31 00:25 UTCOSV refresh
  6. 2026-10-30 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  7. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  8. 2026-10-28 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
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  12. 2026-10-25 14:38 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-24 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 53rd percentile
  14. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  15. 2026-10-23 04:10 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-23 04:10 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
  18. 2026-10-21 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.7% · 50th percentile
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  22. 2026-10-18 03:50 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-14 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
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  3. 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  4. 2026-10-12 16:17 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-11 19:59 UTCEG score recompute
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  7. 2026-10-11 14:43 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
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  12. 2026-10-08 13:24 UTCOSV refresh
  13. 2026-10-07 23:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
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  23. 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 28th percentile
  24. 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 28th percentile
  25. 2026-09-18 19:06 UTCOSV refresh
  26. 2026-09-17 19:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 28th percentile
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  40. 2026-08-30 22:17 UTCOSV refresh
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  56. 2026-08-14 08:58 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-08-14 08:58 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 27th percentile
  59. 2026-08-13 01:58 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-08-13 01:58 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 27th percentile
  62. 2026-08-11 23:52 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-08-11 23:52 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-08-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 27th percentile
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  66. 2026-08-10 13:13 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-08-10 13:13 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-08-09 13:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 27th percentile
  69. 2026-08-09 08:35 UTCEG score recompute
  70. 2026-08-09 08:35 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 27th percentile

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-27888?
CVE-2026-27888 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on February 26, 2026. pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.7.3, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to the RAM being exhausted. This requires accessing the xfa property of a reader or writer and the corresponding stream being compressed using /FlateDecode.…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-27888 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-27888 was published on February 26, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 23, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-27888 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-27888 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (34th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-27888?
CVE-2026-27888 has a CVSS base score of 6.6 (the CNA's own assessment, by github_m; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-27888?
A fix for CVE-2026-27888 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-27888 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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