CVE-2026-82864EPSS p35.6%
CVE-2026-82864CVE-2026-82864
Description
pdfme pdf-lib versions before 5.5.10 contain an unbounded buffer growth vulnerability in the DecodeStream.ensureBuffer() method that allows attackers to cause denial of service by supplying a crafted PDF with a FlateDecode stream containing a decompression bomb. Attackers can upload a small compressed PDF that decompresses to hundreds of megabytes, exhausting memory and crashing the Node.js process or freezing browser tabs during PDF parsing.
Scoring
| CVSS | 6.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.44% probability of exploitation · percentile 35.6% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-10 |