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CVE-2020-36773

9.8 criticalEPSS 0.9%

Critical (9.8) in artifex ghostscript. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Artifex Ghostscript before 9.53.0 has an out-of-bounds write and use-after-free in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c (for txtwrite) because a single character code in a PDF document can map to more than one Unicode code point (e.g., for a ligature).

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 59% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-416, CWE-787
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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