SecuriTricks - CVE-2025-46206

Description

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

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor	Product	Versions
Artifex	Mupdf	1.25.5, 1.25.6

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

CWE-674

Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language	Software Edition	Target Software	Target Hardware	Other Information
a	artifex	mupdf	1.25.5	/	/	/	/	/	/	/
a	artifex	mupdf	1.25.6	/	/	/	/	/	/	/

References

http://artifex.com

http://mupdf.com

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708521

https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=0ec7e4d2201bb6df217e01c17396d36297abf9ac

https://github.com/Landw-hub/CVE-2025-46206

CVSS Score

6.5 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

Attack Vector: NETWORK
Attack Complexity: LOW
Privileges Required: NONE
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Timeline

Published: Aug. 4, 2025, 6:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Aug. 5, 2025, 5:15 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

cve@mitre.org

CVE-2025-46206