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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2018-1000040 json

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 o…

published 2018-05-24 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-1801

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • mupdf Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.13.0+ds1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000040

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-1000040 updated cvss 2.8

mupdf: Improper Initialization of values in the PDF parser

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.chromium.org https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5609 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugs.chromium.org https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5596 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugs.chromium.org https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5600 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugs.chromium.org https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5610 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugs.chromium.org https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5603 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.