CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-36664
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-06-25
- Last modified
- 2026-08-28
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-552
Description
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (< 10.01.2)
• debian debian linux 11.0
• debian debian linux 12.0
• fedoraproject fedora 37
• fedoraproject fedora 38
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-552 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties weakness
References
- https://artifex.com/blog/security-vulnerability-fixed-in-ghostscript-10.01.2 artifex.com
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706761 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0974e4f2ac0005d3731e0b5c13ebc7e965540f4d git.ghostscript.com
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=505eab7782b429017eb434b2b95120855f2b0e3c git.ghostscript.com
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2ICXN5VPF3WJCYKMPSYER5KHTPJXSTJZ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5EWMEK2UPCUU3ZLL7VASE5CEHDQY4VKV/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-36664 security-tracker.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5446 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.kroll.com/en/publications/cyber/ghostscript-cve-2023-36664-remote-code-execution-vulnerability www.kroll.com
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706761 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0974e4f2ac0005d3731e0b5c13ebc7e965540f4d Permissions Required
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=505eab7782b429017eb434b2b95120855f2b0e3c Permissions Required
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2ICXN5VPF3WJCYKMPSYER5KHTPJXSTJZ/ Broken Link
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5EWMEK2UPCUU3ZLL7VASE5CEHDQY4VKV/ Broken Link
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5446 Third Party Advisory