CVE-2025-46206
An issue in Artifex mupdf 1.25.6, 1.25.5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via an infinite recursion in the mutool clean utility. When...
- Published
- Aug 4, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 5, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Aug 14, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 32.6%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
An issue in Artifex mupdf 1.25.6, 1.25.5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via an infinite recursion in the `mutool clean` utility. When processing a crafted PDF file containing cyclic /Next references in the outline structure, the `strip_outline()` function enters infinite recursion
Sources
1CVE-2025-46206 proof-of-concept demonstrating a denial-of-service vulnerability in MuPDF 1.25.6 via infinite recursion in pdf-clean-file.c, with reproduction steps and vendor patch.
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