Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting pymupdf package, versions [,1.18.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYMUPDF-12704824
  • published16 Sept 2025
  • disclosed22 Aug 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Aug 2023

CVE-2020-26683  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade PyMuPDF to version 1.18.0 or higher.

Overview

PyMuPDF is an A high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime through the /pdf/pdf-font-add.c component. An attacker can obtain sensitive information by exploiting a memory leak issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1