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CVE-2018-1000037

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-05-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

In Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 and earlier, multiple reachable assertions in the PDF parser allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (assert crash) via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Artifex MuPDF: through 1.12.0
• Debian Linux: 9.0

References

• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=71ceebcf56e682504da22c4035b39a2d451e8ffd%3Bhp=7f82c01523505052615492f8e220f4348ba46995
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=8a3257b01faa899dd9b5e35c6bb3403cd709c371%3Bhp=de39f005f12a1afc6973c1f5cec362d6545f70cb
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=b2e7d38e845c7d4922d05e6e41f3a2dc1bc1b14a%3Bhp=f51836b9732c38d945b87fda0770009a77ba680c
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5490
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5501
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5503
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5511
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5564
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698882
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698886
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698888
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698890

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