CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2023-36664
High (7.8). EPSS 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 90% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-552
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- artifex:ghostscript
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
References
- https://artifex.com/blog/security-vulnerability-fixed-in-ghostscript-10.01.2
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706761
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0974e4f2ac0005d3731e0b5c13ebc7e965540f4d
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=505eab7782b429017eb434b2b95120855f2b0e3c
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2ICXN5VPF3WJCYKMPSYER5KHTPJXSTJZ/