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.
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:pdfminer:pdfminer.six:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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| References | () https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/commit/b808ee05dd7f0c8ea8ec34bdf394d40e63501086 - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/releases/tag/20251107 - Release Notes | |
| References | () https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/security/advisories/GHSA-wf5f-4jwr-ppcp - Exploit, Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00017.html - Mailing List | |
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Debian debian Linux
Pdfminer Debian Pdfminer pdfminer.six |
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| References | () https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/security/advisories/GHSA-wf5f-4jwr-ppcp - |
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Information
Published : 2025-11-10 22:15
Updated : 2026-01-08 22:16
NVD link : CVE-2025-64512
Mitre link : CVE-2025-64512
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-64512
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Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
pdfminer
- pdfminer.six
CWE
CWE-502
Deserialization of Untrusted Data
