CVE-2018-1000039

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-05-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

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.

Affected products

Artifex MuPDF: through 1.12.0

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4dcc6affe04368461310a21238f7e1871a752a05%3Bhp=8ec561d1bccc46e9db40a9f61310cd8b3763914e
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=71ceebcf56e682504da22c4035b39a2d451e8ffd%3Bhp=7f82c01523505052615492f8e220f4348ba46995
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f597300439e62f5e921f0d7b1e880b5c1a1f1607%3Bhp=093fc3b098dc5fadef5d8ad4b225db9fb124758b
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5492
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5513
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5521
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5604
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698883
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698888
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698891
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698892
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698901

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