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CVE-2020-17353

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

scm/define-stencil-commands.scm in LilyPond through 2.20.0, and 2.21.x through 2.21.4, when -dsafe is used, lacks restrictions on embedded-ps and embedded-svg, as demonstrated by including dangerous PostScript code.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
• Lilypond: through 2.20.0; from 2.21.0 through 2.21.4
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp2
• openSUSE Leap: 15.2

References

• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b84ea4740f3279516905c5db05f4074e777c16ff
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00064.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00076.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QG2JUV4UTIA27JUE6IZLCEFP5PYSFPF4/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W2JYMVLTPSNYS5F7TBHKIXUZZJIJAMRX/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4756
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b84ea4740f3279516905c5db05f4074e777c16ff
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00064.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00076.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QG2JUV4UTIA27JUE6IZLCEFP5PYSFPF4/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W2JYMVLTPSNYS5F7TBHKIXUZZJIJAMRX/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4756

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