High severity · published Nov 10, 2025
CVE-2025-64512
Pdfminer.six is a community maintained fork of the original PDFMiner, a tool for extracting information from PDF documents
7.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 27% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
11.0 · source: NVD
PD
Pdfminer.six · Pdfminer
before 2025-11-07 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-64512
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-64512
Patch
https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/commit/b808ee05dd7f0c8ea8ec34bdf394d40e63501086
Release Notes
https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/releases/tag/20251107
Exploit
https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/security/advisories/GHSA-wf5f-4jwr-ppcp
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00017.html
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00005.html
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