Unlimited Recursion Vulnerability in MuJS by Artifex
CVE-2019-11413

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Artifex
Status
Mujs
Vendor
CVE Published:
22 April 2019

What is CVE-2019-11413?

An issue has been identified in Artifex MuJS version 1.0.5, where the match function in regexp.c is susceptible to unlimited recursion due to a lack of depth checking. This vulnerability could potentially lead to resource exhaustion or program crashes, allowing attackers to exploit this flaw for denial of service attacks.

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700937
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/findgit.cgi?00d4606c3b...
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/ccxvii/mujs/commit/00d4606c3baf813b7b1...
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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