CVE-2020-16600
A Use After Free vulnerability exists in Artifex Software, Inc.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.96%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A Use After Free vulnerability exists in Artifex Software, Inc. MuPDF library 1.17.0-rc1 and earlier when a valid page was followed by a page with invalid pixmap dimensions, causing bander - a static - to point to previously freed memory instead of a newband_writer.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.96% probability · 61th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Affected
- artifex/mupdf
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.0% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=96751b25462f83d6e16a9afaf8980b0c3f979c8b
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702253Third Party Advisory
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=96751b25462f83d6e16a9afaf8980b0c3f979c8b
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702253Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.