What is CVE-2016-10132?

CVE-2016-10132 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Mujs, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-03-24.

How severe is CVE-2016-10132?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

NULL pointer dereference in Artifex Mujs

CVE-2016-10132

regexp.c in Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to regular expression compilation.

Published 2017-03-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.022 (81.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 81.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Artifex Mujs
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 25

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/13/1 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/… (vendor-advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/12/9 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
git.ghostscript.com/
bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10132?: CVE-2016-10132 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Mujs, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-03-24.
How severe is CVE-2016-10132?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.