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CVE-2024-46953 (GCVE-0-2024-46953)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-10 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:19
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Summary
An issue was discovered in base/gsdevice.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. An integer overflow when parsing the filename format string (for the output filename) results in path truncation, and possible path traversal and 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 · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-12 19:59 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
artifex ghostscript Affected: 10.04.0
    cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:10.04.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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