CVE-2026-40505

A flaw was found in MuPDF mutool. This vulnerability allows a local attacker to embed malicious ANSI escape sequences within a PDF's metadata. When a user views the PDF's information using the mutool info command, these unsanitized sequences are processed by the terminal. This can lead to the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40505

MuPDF before 1.27 contains an ANSI injection vulnerability in mutool that allows attackers to inject arbitrary ANSI escape sequences through crafted PDF metadata fields. Attackers can embed malicious ANSI escape codes in PDF metadata that are passed unsanitized to terminal output when running...

CVE-2026-40505

Technical details (affected product versions, root-cause specifics, and remediation steps) are not publicly provided in the supplied documents. The sources reiterate a MuPDF mutool PDF-metadata sanitization issue but do not include concrete technical specifics.

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-40505

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - MuPDF before 1.27 contains an ANSI injection vulnerability in mutool that allows attackers to inject arbitrary ANSI escape sequences through crafted PDF metadat...