CVE-2026-120752
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
PyMuPDF 1.25.3 before 2.0 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in JM_set_annot_callout_line() that copies a caller-supplied number of callout points into a fixed three-element stack array. Attackers who control the callout argument passed to Page.add_freetext_annot() can supply four or more points to overwrite the stack frame, crashing the process or executing code.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.7
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-11-02 23:17:20.243000
Last modified
2026-11-02 23:17:20.243000
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"id": "CVE-2026-120752",
"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-11-02T23:17:20.243",
"lastModified": "2026-11-02T23:17:20.243",
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}
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{
"source": "[email protected]",
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"references": [
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"url": "https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF/blob/1.28.2/src/extra.i#L787-L797",
"source": "[email protected]"
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{
"url": "https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF/commit/d4298ead84ceeae1c9065c81cd9a275a1b092f5e",
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"url": "https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF/issues/5112",
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{
"url": "https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF/issues/5173",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF/releases/tag/2.0",
"source": "[email protected]"
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"source": "[email protected]"
}
]
}