CVE-2018-1000051

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Artifex Mupdf version 1.12.0 contains a Use After Free vulnerability in fz_keep_key_storable that can result in DOS / Possible code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Victim opens a specially crafted PDF.

Affected products

Artifex MuPDF: 1.12.0
Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698825
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698873
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=321ba1de287016b0036bf4a56ce774ad11763384
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4152
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698825
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698873
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4152

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