CVE-2024-33869

medium

Published 2024-09-03 · Modified 2024-09-04

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. Path traversal and command execution can occur (via a crafted PostScript document) because of path reduction in base/gpmisc.c. For example, restrictions on use of %pipe% can be bypassed via the aa/../%pipe%command# output filename.

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
debian	bookworm	fixed	`10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u4`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7`
debian	forky	fixed	`10.03.1~dfsg~git20240518-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`10.03.1~dfsg~git20240518-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`10.03.1~dfsg~git20240518-1`
sles		affected
rocky	9	fixed
almalinux	9	fixed	`libgs-9.54.0-17.el9_4.aarch64.rpm`

References

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

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