PT-2018-17131 · Artifex · Artifex Mujs

Andrea Sindoni + 1 · Published 2018-01-24 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-5759

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Artifex MuJS versions 1.0.2 and earlier

Description: The issue is related to the improper maintenance of the AST depth for binary expressions in jsparse.c, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service through excessive recursion by using a crafted file.

Recommendations: For Artifex MuJS versions 1.0.2 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Uncontrolled Recursion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-674

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-5759

Affected Products

Artifex Mujs

References · 6

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/43904 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5759 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5759 · Security Note
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698868 · Note
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4d45a96e57fbabf00a7378b337d0ddcace6f38c1 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/102833 · Note