What is CVE-2019-12798?

CVE-2019-12798 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Artifex Mujs, classified under Incorrect Regular Expression. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-06-13.

How severe is CVE-2019-12798?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Artifex Mujs

CVE-2019-12798

An issue was discovered in Artifex MuJS 1.0.5. regcompx in regexp.c does not restrict regular expression program size, leading to an overflow of the parsed syntax list size.

EPSS: 0.017 (73.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Artifex Mujs — versions 1.0.5
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-185 — Incorrect Regular Expression

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-12798?: CVE-2019-12798 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Artifex Mujs, classified under Incorrect Regular Expression. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-06-13.
How severe is CVE-2019-12798?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.