CVE-2024-46951 (GCVE-0-2024-46951)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-10 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:19
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in psi/zcolor.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An unchecked Implementation pointer in Pattern color space could lead to arbitrary code execution.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-824 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
artifex ghostscript Affected: 10.04.0
    cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:10.04.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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