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CVE-2018-1000039
In Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 and earlier, multiple heap use after free bugs in the PDF parser could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary…
- 6.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 21% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 and earlier, multiple heap use after free bugs in the PDF parser could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, read memory, or cause a denial of service via a crafted file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References13
- GLSA-201811-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4dcc6affe04368461310a21238f7e1871a752a05%3Bhp=8ec561d1bccc46e9db40a9f61310cd8b3763914e (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=71ceebcf56e682504da22c4035b39a2d451e8ffd%3Bhp=7f82c01523505052615492f8e220f4348ba46995 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5492 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5521 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5604 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f597300439e62f5e921f0d7b1e880b5c1a1f1607%3Bhp=093fc3b098dc5fadef5d8ad4b225db9fb124758b (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5513 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698883 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698888 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698891 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698892 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698901 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-1800 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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