VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-10141
An integer overflow vulnerability was observed in the regemit function in regexp.c in Artifex Software, Inc.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 3.65%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.65%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An integer overflow vulnerability was observed in the regemit function in regexp.c in Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before fa3d30fd18c348bb4b1f3858fb860f4fcd4b2045. The attack requires a regular expression with nested repetition. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to code execution or a denial of service (buffer overflow) condition.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 3.65% probability · 89th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-190
- Affected
- artifex/mujs
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Bh=fa3d30fd18c348bb4b1f3858fb860f4fcd4b2045
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95876Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697448Issue Tracking
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Bh=fa3d30fd18c348bb4b1f3858fb860f4fcd4b2045
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95876Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697448Issue Tracking
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.