What is CVE-2023-46361?

CVE-2023-46361 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Artifex Jbig2dec, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-10-31.

How severe is CVE-2023-46361?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Artifex Jbig2dec

CVE-2023-46361

Artifex Software jbig2dec v0.20 was discovered to contain a SEGV vulnerability via jbig2_error at /jbig2dec/jbig2.c.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2023-10-31 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (53.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 53rd percentile — 53.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Artifex Jbig2dec — versions 0.20

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

github.com/Frank-Z7/z-vulnerabilitys/blob/main/jbig2dec-SEGV/jbig2dec-SEGV.md (Product, Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-46361?: CVE-2023-46361 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Artifex Jbig2dec, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-10-31.
How severe is CVE-2023-46361?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.