Security advisory

{
  "id": "a1e94793157f11252fdaa3d182b4fc84bd29dbe789b38a56a376d510b3f02441",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-16600",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-16600",
    "summary": "A Use After Free vulnerability exists in Artifex Software, Inc. MuPDF library 1.17.0-rc1 and earlier when a valid page was followed by a page with invalid pixmap dimensions, causing bander - a static - to point to previously freed memory instead of a newband_writer.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-16600",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-16600",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-16600"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/artifexsoftware/mupdf",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "75dbbd97826e7191ee539f9934e607eb93247a42"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "07f4be7a121859344a6b4590ab5f18d266e9dc66"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "07f4be7a121859344a6b4590ab5f18d266e9dc66"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:mupdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.16.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:mupdf:1.17.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.17.0-rc1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.17.0-rc1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.17.0-rc1",
            "1.16.1",
            "1.16.1-epub-prerelease",
            "1.16.0-rc2",
            "1.16.0",
            "1.16.0-rc1",
            "1.15.0-rc1",
            "1.15.0",
            "1.14.0",
            "1.14.0-rc1",
            "1.13.0-rc1",
            "1.13.0",
            "1.12.0",
            "1.11.1",
            "1.11",
            "1.11-rc1",
            "1.10",
            "1.10-rc2",
            "1.10-rc1",
            "1.9a",
            "1.9",
            "1.9-rc2",
            "1.9-rc1",
            "1.8",
            "1.7a",
            "1.7",
            "1.7-rc1",
            "1.6-appstore",
            "1.6-ios-rc2",
            "1.6-ios-rc1",
            "android-release-60",
            "1.6",
            "1.5-ios-rc8",
            "1.5-ios-appstore",
            "1.5-ios-rc7",
            "1.5-ios-rc6",
            "1.5-ios",
            "1.5",
            "1.4-ios",
            "1.4",
            "1.3rc1",
            "1.2",
            "1.1-forms-tech-preview",
            "1.0",
            "1.0rc1",
            "0.9",
            "0.8",
            "0.7",
            "0.6",
            "0.5",
            "0.4",
            "0.3",
            "0.2",
            "0.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-16600.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:15.455850754Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702253"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-16600",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429151,
  "published_at": "2020-12-09T21:15:15.413+00:00"
}