CVE-2010-4820
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.62 allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript code via a Trojan horse Postscript library file in Encoding/ under the current working
02 Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.62 allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript code via a Trojan horse Postscript library file in Encoding/ under the current working
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.47% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 40.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-10-27 01:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 04:02Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2011-08-19
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 7c63d20d911d16e2e58b4760cd044fa515f05e9ca9eac259c93323496730d824
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771853
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20120104 Re: CVE request: ghostscript: system initialization file uncontrolled search path elementhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/04/7
- bugs.ghostscript.comhttp://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2012:0096http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0096.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2012:0095http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
- www.securityfocus.com20100522 Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startuphttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433
- www.securityfocus.com51847http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51847
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- ghostscript Fixed in 8.71~dfsg2-6.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- ghostscript Fixed in 8.71~dfsg2-6.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- ghostscript Fixed in 8.71~dfsg2-6.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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