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CVE-2009-5078

6.5 mediumEPSS 2.3%

Medium (6.5). EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.sh in GNU troff (aka groff) before 1.21 launches the Ghostscript program without the -dSAFER option, which allows remote attackers to create, overwrite, rename, or delete arbitrary files via a crafted document.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
EPSS
2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-254
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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