THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-10141
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2016-10141

Mujs vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.6%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Artifex
Affected product
Mujs
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Published
2017-01-13

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-10141

  • Confirm whether Artifex Mujs is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-10141.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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