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CVE-2023-36664
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character…
High7.8EPSS 3.9%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.9% · top 9.8% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (14)
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706761 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=505eab7782b429017eb434b2b95120855f2b0e3c (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0974e4f2ac0005d3731e0b5c13ebc7e965540f4d (opens in a new tab)
- DSA-5446 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-d8a1c3e5e2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2023-83c805b441 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- GLSA-202309-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://artifex.com/blog/security-vulnerability-fixed-in-ghostscript-10.01.2 (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.kroll.com/en/publications/cyber/ghostscript-cve-2023-36664-remote-code-execution-vulnerability (opens in a new tab)
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-36664 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=505eab7782b429017eb434b2b95120855f2b0e3c (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0974e4f2ac0005d3731e0b5c13ebc7e965540f4d (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-d8a1c3e5e2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-83c805b441 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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