CVE-2018-1000040: Artifex Mupdf

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 and earlier, multiple use of uninitialized value bugs in the PDF parser could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) or influence program flow via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Artifex Mupdf: up to and including 1.12.0
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only

Published 2018-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.