CVE-2020-17354: Lilypond

High severity, CVSS 8.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

LilyPond before 2.24 allows attackers to bypass the -dsafe protection mechanism via output-def-lookup or output-def-scope, as demonstrated by dangerous Scheme code in a .ly file that causes arbitrary code execution during conversion to a different file format. NOTE: in 2.24 and later versions, safe mode is removed, and the product no longer tries to block code execution when external files are used.

Affected products

• Lilypond Lilypond: before 2.24.0 (fixed in 2.24.0)

Published 2023-04-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.