CVE-2016-7505

Mujs vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

3.0%

EPSS pct

86th

Exploited

No known

A buffer overflow vulnerability was observed in divby function of Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 8c805b4eb19cf2af689c860b77e6111d2ee439d5. A successful exploitation of this issue can lead to code execution or denial of service condition.

Affected vendor

Artifex

Affected product

Mujs

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2016-10-29

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 3.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-7505

Confirm whether Artifex Mujs is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-7505.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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