Security advisory

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  "id": "7acae8eb3817f0947be7abef1e7b8bccb8dab1623f9bbb67aece02a119ea78df",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-46206",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2025-46206",
    "summary": "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",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-46206",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2025-46206",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2025-46206"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/artifexsoftware/mupdf",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "8610a48f12b71eb7a73b6d68cece78f6342d116f"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:mupdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.25.6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.25.6",
            "1.25.5",
            "1.25.4",
            "1.25.3",
            "1.25.2",
            "1.25.1",
            "1.25.0",
            "1.25.0-rc2",
            "1.25.0-rc1",
            "1.24.0",
            "1.24.0-rc1",
            "1.23.0",
            "1.23.0-rc1",
            "1.22.0-rc1",
            "1.21.0-rc1",
            "1.20.0-rc1",
            "1.19.0-rc1-so-3.12.7",
            "1.19.0-rc1",
            "1.18.1-so-3.12.6",
            "1.18.1-so-3.12.4",
            "1.18.1-so-3.12.2b1-android",
            "1.18.1-so-3.12.2b1-ios",
            "1.18.1-so-3.12.1-android",
            "1.18.1-so-3.12.1-ios",
            "1.18.0",
            "1.18.0-rc1",
            "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-2025-46206.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:37.109042694Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "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/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/46xxx/CVE-2025-46206.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46206",
        "https://github.com/Landw-hub/CVE-2025-46206"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/46xxx/CVE-2025-46206.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2025-46206",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 504460,
  "published_at": "2025-08-04T00:00:00+00:00"
}