CVE-2017-14686

HIGH

Artifex MuPDF 1.11 - Remote Code Execution via Crafted .xps File

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Artifex MuPDF 1.11 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted .xps file, related to a "User Mode Write AV near NULL starting at wow64!Wow64NotifyDebugger+0x000000000000001d" on Windows. This occurs because read_zip_dir_imp in fitz/unzip.c does not check whether size fields in a ZIP entry are negative numbers.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4006
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698540

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0035
EPSS Percentile 57.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
artifex/mupdf 1.11
Published Sep 22, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026