What is CVE-2026-38970?
pdfcpu through v0.11.1 contains an uncontrolled-recursion denial-of-service issue in pkg/pdfcpu/model/parse.go. The parser descends recursively through nested PDF objects, including arrays, via ParseObjectContext() and parseArray() without enforcing a maximum nesting depth.
The identifier was first published 95 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7.0% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 0.3/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2026-07-02
Is CVE-2026-38970 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 31 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
No affected-product or package list has been recorded for CVE-2026-38970 in the tracked sources. The vendor advisory and the references below are the authoritative statement of what is affected.
How to fix CVE-2026-38970
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-38970 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat any affected deployment as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2026-38970
No threat campaign in the Threadlinqs corpus currently references CVE-2026-38970, in its CVE list or as an indicator. The linkage is recomputed from the live corpus on every daily ingest, so this section fills in as soon as a tracked campaign cites the identifier.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS, GitHub Security Advisories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on . This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.