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CVE-2023-52722 (GCVE-0-2023-52722)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-27 00:00 – Updated: 2024-12-04 21:03

Summary

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. psi/zmisc1.c, when SAFER mode is used, allows eexec seeds other than the Type 1 standard.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-07-29 19:14 UTC

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2309 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/gho…
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/28/2	mailing-list

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SUSE-SU-2024:1590-2

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2024-06-18 11:06 - Updated: 2026-09-20 15:49

Summary

Security update for ghostscript

Severity

Moderate

Scope

1 vulnerability in this advisory, including CVE-2023-52722.

CVE-2023-52722

5.5 (Medium)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Recommended: 60 products

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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52722 (CVE-2023-52722)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-04-28 00:15 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:45 – Source website

Details

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. psi/zmisc1.c, when SAFER mode is used, allows eexec seeds other than the Type 1 standard.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-52722	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52722	REPORT
	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6835-1	ADVISORY

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WID-SEC-W-2024-0980

Vulnerability from csaf_certbund - Published: 2024-04-28 22:00 - Updated: 2025-01-12 23:00

Summary

Ghostscript: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Umgehen von Sicherheitsvorkehrungen

Severity

Mittel

Scope

1 vulnerability in this advisory, including CVE-2023-52722.

CVE-2023-52722

Es existiert eine Schwachstelle in Ghostscript. Diese ist darauf zurückzuführen, dass im SAFER-Modus weiterhin "eexec-seeds" verwendet werden können die nicht 1 sind. Ein Angreifer kann diese Schwachstelle ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.

Known affected: 8 products Last affected: 1 product

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Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.

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CVE-2023-52722 (GCVE-0-2023-52722)

SUSE-SU-2024:1590-2

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52722 (CVE-2023-52722)

WID-SEC-W-2024-0980

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