CVE-2017-14687

high

Published 2017-09-22 · Modified 2026-05-13

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

7.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Artifex MuPDF 1.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .xps file, related to "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at mupdf+0x000000000016cb4f" on Windows. This occurs because of mishandling of XML tag name comparisons.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`0.3.1-4`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.11+ds1-1.1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.11+ds1-1.1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.11+ds1-1.1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.11+ds1-1.1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.11+ds1-1.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
artifex	mupdf	`1.11`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.