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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : MuJS vulnerabilities (USN-7575-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 240196

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7575-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that MuJS did not correctly handle try/finally statements, which could lead to a buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute

 arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-45005)

 Han Zheng discovered that MuJS did not correctly handle recursion, which could lead to stack exhaustion.
 An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-30974)

 Han Zheng discovered that MuJS did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-30975)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libmujs-dev, libmujs1 and / or mujs packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7575-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 240196

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7575-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2025

Updated: 6/19/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-45005

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmujs-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmujs1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mujs

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-45005, CVE-2022-30974, CVE-2022-30975

USN: 7575-1