CVE-2018-5759 - Uncontrolled Recursion

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

jsparse.c in Artifex MuJS through 1.0.2 does not properly maintain the AST depth for binary expressions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive recursion) via a crafted file.

jsparse.c in Artifex MuJS through 1.0.2 does not properly maintain the AST depth for binary expressions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive recursion) via a crafted file.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2018-01-24 21:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

Artifex Software MuJS

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git;a=commit;h=4d45a96e57fbabf00a7378b337d0ddcace6f38c1

Patch, Third Party Advisory

102833

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698868

Permissions Required

43904

Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

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