CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-16304
Medium (5.5). EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A buffer overflow vulnerability in image_render_color_thresh() in base/gxicolor.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.18 to v9.50 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via a crafted eps file. This is fixed in v9.51.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- artifex:ghostscript
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=027c546e0dd11e0526f1780a7f3c2c66acffe209
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701816
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/base/gxicolor.c?h=ghostscript-9.18#n825
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20