CVE-2020-21896: Artifex Mupdf

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Use After Free vulnerability in svg_dev_text_span_as_paths_defs function in source/fitz/svg-device.c in Artifex Software MuPDF 1.16.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via opening of a crafted PDF file.

Affected products

• Artifex Mupdf: version 1.16.0 only

Published 2023-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.