High severity · published Nov 12, 2016
CVE-2016-9294
Artifex Software, Inc
7.5
CVSS
2.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 5008105780c0b0182ea6eda83ad5598f225be3ee allows context-dependent attackers to conduct "denial of service (application crash)" attacks by using the "malformed labeled break/continue in JavaScript" approach, related to a "NULL pointer dereference" issue affecting the jscompile.c component.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.8% · higher than 86% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MU
Mujs · Artifex
before 2016-10-26 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9294
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9294
Exploit
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697172
git.ghostscript.com
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5008105780c0b0182ea6eda83ad5598f225be3ee
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94293
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