What is CVE-2017-5628?

CVE-2017-5628 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Mujs, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-01-30.

How severe is CVE-2017-5628?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Artifex Mujs

CVE-2017-5628

An issue was discovered in Artifex Software, Inc. MuJS before 8f62ea10a0af68e56d5c00720523ebcba13c2e6a. The MakeDay function in jsdate.c does not validate the month, leading to an integer overflow when parsing a specially crafted JS file.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

Published 2017-01-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 63rd percentile — 62.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Artifex Mujs

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

git.ghostscript.com/
bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/95855 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-5628?: CVE-2017-5628 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Mujs, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-01-30.
How severe is CVE-2017-5628?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.