Vulnerabilities / CVE-2020-17353

critical

CVE-2020-17353

scm/define-stencil-commands.scm in LilyPond through 2.20.0, and 2.21.x ...

Published Modified
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

scm/define-stencil-commands.scm in LilyPond through 2.20.0, and 2.21.x through 2.21.4, when -dsafe is used, lacks restrictions on embedded-ps and embedded-svg, as demonstrated by including dangerous PostScript code.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10lilypond2.19.81+really-2.18.2-13+deb10u1
debian 11lilypond2.20.0-2
debian 12lilypond2.20.0-2
debian 13lilypond2.20.0-2
debian 14lilypond2.20.0-2
echolilypond2.20.0-2
ubuntu 18.04-ESMlilypondno fix listed
ubuntu 20.04-ESMlilypondno fix listed

References

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