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CVE-2016-8729

7.8 highEPSS 1.5%

High (7.8) in artifex mupdf. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the JBIG2 parser of Artifex MuPDF 1.9. A specially crafted PDF can cause a negative number to be passed to a memset resulting in memory corruption and potential code execution. An attacker can specially craft a PDF and send to the victim to trigger this vulnerability.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-119
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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