CVE-2016-8728: Artifex Mupdf

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable heap out of bounds write vulnerability exists in the Fitz graphical library part of the MuPDF renderer. A specially crafted PDF file can cause a out of bounds write resulting in heap metadata and sensitive process memory corruption leading to potential code execution. Victim needs to open the specially crafted file in a vulnerable reader in order to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Artifex Mupdf: version 1.10 only

Published 2018-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.