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high 7.5

CVE-2022-41957 json

muhammara vulnerable to Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference

published 3y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-2r7v-cmch-5x26 , EUVD-2022-7477

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Muhammara is a node module with c/cpp bindings to modify PDF with JavaScript for node or electron. The package muhammara before 2.6.2 and from 3.0.0 and before 3.3.0, as well as all versions of muhammara's predecessor package hummus, are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when supplied with a maliciously crafted PDF file to be parsed. The issue has been patched in muhammara version 3.4.0 and the fix has been backported to version 2.6.2. As a workaround, do not process files from untrusted sources. If using hummus, replace the package with muhammara.

Patch / fix

  • npm muhammara 2.6.2, 3.4.0
  • muhammara_project muhammara 2.6.2, 3.3.0

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

1.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm hummus
all versions
 no fix listed
npm muhammara
>=3.0.0, <3.4.0
<2.6.2
3.4.0
2.6.2

Affected products

  • julianhille MuhammaraJS

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-690 Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Sources

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