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Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge affected by vulnerability in pypdf-6.3.0-py3-none-any.whl

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge affected by vulnerability in pypdf-6.3.0-py3-none-any.whl

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2025-66019
DESCRIPTION:   pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.4.0, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to a memory usage of up to 1 GB per stream. This requires parsing the content stream of a page using the LZWDecode filter. This issue has been patched in version 6.4.0.
CWE:   CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS Source:   security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score:   6.6
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
ICP - Discovery5.0.0-5.3.0

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge 5.3.1 and https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

10 Apr 2026: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
10 April 2026

Initial Publish date:
10 April 2026

UID

ibm17269166