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CVE-2025-71382: artifex mupdf Uncontrolled Recursion

CVSS: 7.1v4.0HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71382DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71382
Published 23-06-2026Last modified 14-07-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-71382 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in artifex mupdf. EPSS estimates a 0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
39/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.1/10
010
High · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.58%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 23-06-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 14-07-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

MuPDF before 1.27.0-rc1 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in the EPUB CSS rendering engine that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying a maliciously crafted EPUB file with deeply nested HTML elements and inline CSS styles. The function value_from_inheritable_property() in css-apply.c recurses through the CSS property inheritance chain without a depth limit, exhausting the process stack and causing a crash in any application using MuPDF for EPUB rendering.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.58%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

47%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.58% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.58%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (bugs.ghostscript.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Artifex1 product
Artifexsoftware1 product
Debian1 product
  • mupdfAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.27.0+ds1-2
Ubuntu1 product
  • mupdfAll versions (No fix recorded)

4 vendors · 4 products

References

7 links