An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes. This requires accessing a stream which uses the /FlateDecode filter with a PNG predictor.
This has been fixed in pypdf==6.12.2.
If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #3806.
1.01.11.101.111.121.131.21.31.41.5+94 more6.12.2Exploitability
AV:LAC:LAT:NPR:NUI:NVulnerable System
VC:NVI:NVA:LSubsequent System
SC:NSI:NSA:NCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N