CVE-2023-36664

high

Published 2023-10-05 · Modified 2023-10-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u5`
debian	forky	fixed	`10.01.2~dfsg-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`10.01.2~dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`10.01.2~dfsg-1`
rocky	9	fixed
almalinux	9	fixed	`ghostscript-tools-printing-9.54.0-10.el9_2.aarch64.rpm`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.