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CVE-2018-5759

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-5759 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Artifex MuJS versions through 1.0.2. It stems from improper AST depth maintenance for binary expressions in jsparse.c, allowing remote attackers to trigger excessive recursion via a crafted file. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) requires user interaction and local access, leading to a high impact on availability. While an Integer Overflow exploit (EDB-43904) is listed, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:mujs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-43904 · Jan 28, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0506 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

git.ghostscript.com
bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
Permissions Required
exploit-db.com / exploits/43904
ExploitPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/102833
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry