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CVE-2026-40505

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 35/100
Published: 2026-04-16 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Auth

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: Passive
S: X
AT: None
VC: None
VI: Low
VA: None

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
artifex mupdf < 1.27.0

References & Advisories (4)

Bug Bounty Relevance

35 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity

CVSS Score

4.8 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.17%
Raw Score 0.001660
Percentile 5.8%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00166
2026-10-28
0.00166

Intelligence Sources

nvd ref →

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