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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-33797

Buffer-overflow in jsdtoa.c in Artifex MuJS in versions 1.0.1 to 1.1.1.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 0.81%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.81%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Buffer-overflow in jsdtoa.c in Artifex MuJS in versions 1.0.1 to 1.1.1. An integer overflow happens when js_strtod() reads in floating point exponent, which leads to a buffer overflow in the pointer *d.

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
0.81% probability · 57th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119, CWE-190
Affected
artifex/mujs
Source
patrick@puiterwijk.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 0.81%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 0.8% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.