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CVE-2016-8729

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-8729 is a memory corruption vulnerability in the JBIG2 parser of Artifex MuPDF 1.9. A specially crafted PDF can lead to a negative value being passed to a memset function, resulting in memory corruption and potential code execution. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a significant impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability concerns, requiring user interaction for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:mupdf:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0168 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
cgit.ghostscript.com / cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jbig2dec.git/commit
cgit.ghostscript.com / cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit
talosintelligence.com / vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243
Third Party Advisory