CVE-2017-14686 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Artifex MuPDF 1.11 and Microsoft MuPDF on Windows, stemming from improper handling of negative size fields in ZIP entries within crafted .xps files. This flaw (CWE-119) allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution or a denial of service. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but has low attack complexity (AC:L), leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:artifex:mupdf:1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.