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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2017-5991 in the critical feed json

An issue was discovered in Artifex MuPDF before 1912de5f08e90af1d9d0a9791f58ba3afdb9d465.

published 2017-02-15 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-15060

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
15.2%
EPSS 15.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

An issue was discovered in Artifex MuPDF before 1912de5f08e90af1d9d0a9791f58ba3afdb9d465. The pdf_run_xobject function in pdf-op-run.c encounters a NULL pointer dereference during a Fitz fz_paint_pixmap_with_mask painting operation. Versions 1.11 and later are unaffected.

Patch / fix

  • artifex mupdf 1.11
  • mupdf Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.9a+ds1-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5991

  • mupdf Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +17 more 1.10a-r2

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-5991

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-5991 updated cvss 3.3

mupdf: NULL pointer dereference in the pdf_run_xobject function

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-42138)

Exploit prediction

15.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-42138 Artifex MuPDF - Null Pointer Dereference dos, 2017-06-07
  • bugs.ghostscript.com https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697500 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.