🛡️ CVE-2026-40505
🟢 CVSS 3.3 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-150 NVD
3.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

MuPDF before 1.27 contains an ANSI injection vulnerability in mutool that allows attackers to inject arbitrary ANSI escape sequences through crafted PDF metadata fields. Attackers can embed malicious ANSI escape codes in PDF metadata that are passed unsanitized to terminal output when running mutool info, enabling them to manipulate terminal display for social engineering attacks such as presenting fake prompts or spoofed commands.

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-150
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-04-16
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-05-26

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mupdf 1.27.0
unknown

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