A floating point exception (divide-by-zero) vulnerability was discovered in Artifex MuPDF…
Priority HIGH 66CWE-369Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-369.
Summary
A floating point exception (divide-by-zero) vulnerability was discovered in Artifex MuPDF 1.23.4 in function pnm_binary_read_image() of load-pnm.c when span equals zero.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00914 60th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-51104
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-h26v-qgm2-w7j4
References
More Artifex Mupdf vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-16051 freeglut through 3.4.0 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the menuEntry variable… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-27942 A floating point exception (divide-by-zero) vulnerability was discovered in Artifex MuPDF… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2021-02374 Double free in mupdf CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2016-07185 Out-of-bounds write in Artifex MuPDF CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2012-04514 SumatraPDF 2.1.1/MuPDF 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause an Integer Overflow in the… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2025-28975 An issue in Artifex mupdf 1.25.6, 1.25.5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
Sources
- CVE-2023-51104 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-51104 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-h26v-qgm2-w7j4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2023-51104 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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