Artifex: Security Vulnerabilities
MuPDF before 1.27.0-rc1 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in the EPUB CSS rendering engine that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying a maliciously crafted EPUB file with deeply nested HTML elements and inline CSS styles. The function value_from_inheritable_property() in css-apply.c recurses through the CSS property inheritance chain without a depth limit, exhausting the process stack and causing a crash in any application using MuPDF for EPUB rendering.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2026-06-23
A vulnerability was determined in Artifex MuPDF up to 1.28.0. The impacted element is the function fz_subset_cff_for_gids of the file subset-cff.c of the component CFF Index Handler. This manipulation causes out-of-bounds read. The attack can only be executed locally. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. The project was informed of the problem early through a bug report but has not responded yet.
CVSS Score
1.9
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-04-28
MuPDF before 1.27 contains an ANSI injection vulnerability in mutool that allows attackers to inject arbitrary ANSI escape sequences through crafted PDF metadata fields. Attackers can embed malicious ANSI escape codes in PDF metadata that are passed unsanitized to terminal output when running mutool info, enabling them to manipulate terminal display for social engineering attacks such as presenting fake prompts or spoofed commands.
CVSS Score
4.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-04-16
MuPDF versions 1.23.0 through 1.27.0 contain a double-free vulnerability in fz_fill_pixmap_from_display_list() when an exception occurs during display list rendering. The function accepts a caller-owned fz_pixmap pointer but incorrectly drops the pixmap in its error handling path before rethrowing the exception. Callers (including the barcode decoding path in fz_decode_barcode_from_display_list) also drop the same pixmap in cleanup, resulting in a double-free that can corrupt the heap and crash the process. This issue affects applications that enable and use MuPDF barcode decoding and can be triggered by processing crafted input that causes a rendering-time error while decoding barcodes.
CVSS Score
5.9
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2026-02-06
A null pointer dereference occurs in the function break_word_for_overflow_wrap() in MuPDF 1.26.4 when rendering a malformed EPUB document. Specifically, the function calls fz_html_split_flow() to split a FLOW_WORD node, but does not check if node->next is valid before accessing node->next->overflow_wrap, resulting in a crash if the split fails or returns a partial node chain.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2025-09-23
Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdfmark_coerce_dest in devices/vector/gdevpdfm.c via a large size value.
CVSS Score
4.3
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-09-22
In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1, ocr_begin_page in devices/gdevpdfocr.c has an integer overflow that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow in ocr_line8.
CVSS Score
4.3
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-09-22
Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap in devices/vector/gdevpdtw.c.
CVSS Score
4.3
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-09-22
An issue in Artifex mupdf 1.25.6, 1.25.5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via an infinite recursion in the `mutool clean` utility. When processing a crafted PDF file containing cyclic /Next references in the outline structure, the `strip_outline()` function enters infinite recursion
CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2025-08-04
gs_lib_ctx_stash_sanitized_arg in base/gslibctx.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.1 lacks argument sanitization for the # case. A created PDF document includes its password in cleartext.
CVSS Score
4.0
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2025-05-23
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