{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00015158","kind":"vulnerability","title":"veraPDF Parser DoS via PostScript CMap Streams","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-jrmc-qg6p-94fp","CVE-2026-54080"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for org.verapdf:parser, org.verapdf:parser. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-3194a140072e6eccecfda6c55b296329"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-3194a140072e6eccecfda6c55b296329","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jrmc-qg6p-94fp","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-jrmc-qg6p-94fp","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-03T09:59:04.660Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-3194a140072e6eccecfda6c55b296329"],"technology":"org.verapdf:parser","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Summary\n\n**Description**\n\nA PostScript-interpreter-driven Denial of Service (CWE-1325) vulnerability in veraPDF allows a remote attacker to exhaust validator memory or CPU by submitting a PDF whose Type 0 font `/Encoding` (or any `/ToUnicode`) is a CMap stream containing attacker-supplied PostScript. veraPDF reuses its CMap parser as a general PostScript interpreter and exposes the unguarded `array N` allocation operator and the `for` control operator with no zero-increment guard. This affects all current versions of veraPDF-parser.\n\n## Details\n\nThe vulnerability resides in veraPDF-parser. CMap streams referenced as a Type 0 font's `/Encoding` (or any font's `/ToUnicode`) are parsed by `CMapParser` (veraPDF-parser/src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/cmap/CMapParser.java), which extends `PSParser`. Tokens that are not the small CMap-specific keyword set (`begincodespacerange`, `bfchar`, `cidchar`, ...) fall through to `PSObject.execute` (veraPDF-parser/src/main/java/org/verapdf/parser/postscript/PSObject.java), which dispatches generic PostScript operators implemented in `PSOperator` (veraPDF-parser/src/main/java/org/verapdf/parser/postscript/PSOperator.java).\n\nTwo operators in tha","public_affected_ranges":["<= 1.30.1"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-3194a140072e6eccecfda6c55b296329"],"technology":"org.verapdf:parser","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Summary\n\n**Description**\n\nA PostScript-interpreter-driven Denial of Service (CWE-1325) vulnerability in veraPDF allows a remote attacker to exhaust validator memory or CPU by submitting a PDF whose Type 0 font `/Encoding` (or any `/ToUnicode`) is a CMap stream containing attacker-supplied PostScript. veraPDF reuses its CMap parser as a general PostScript interpreter and exposes the unguarded `array N` allocation operator and the `for` control operator with no zero-increment guard. This affects all current versions of veraPDF-parser.\n\n## Details\n\nThe vulnerability resides in veraPDF-parser. CMap streams referenced as a Type 0 font's `/Encoding` (or any font's `/ToUnicode`) are parsed by `CMapParser` (veraPDF-parser/src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/cmap/CMapParser.java), which extends `PSParser`. Tokens that are not the small CMap-specific keyword set (`begincodespacerange`, `bfchar`, `cidchar`, ...) fall through to `PSObject.execute` (veraPDF-parser/src/main/java/org/verapdf/parser/postscript/PSObject.java), which dispatches generic PostScript operators implemented in `PSOperator` (veraPDF-parser/src/main/java/org/verapdf/parser/postscript/PSOperator.java).\n\nTwo operators in tha","public_affected_ranges":[">= 1.31.1, <= 1.31.22"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-03T10:03:26.554Z","source_updated_at":"2026-07-29T15:17:33.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-07-29T15:17:32.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-03T09:59:04.660Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}