CVE-2020-16291

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

2.26% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 81.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

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.

Published

2020-08-13 02:08Z6 YR AGO

Last updated

2025-03-04 18:49Z1 YR AGO

Reserved

2020-08-03

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
• CWE-131Incorrect Calculation of Buffer SizeBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

eacae9922111ebc018975389d0af8e4a28b1df694fe724066ca29e9529519d75

• bugs.ghostscript.comhttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701787
• git.ghostscript.comhttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200820 [SECURITY] [DLA 2335-1] ghostscript security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.htmlmailing-list
• www.debian.orgDSA-4748https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748vendor-advisory
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202008-20https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20vendor-advisory
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4469-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/vendor-advisory
• cgit.ghostscript.comhttps://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/tree/contrib/gdevdj9.c?h=ghostpdl-9.18#n824
• cgit.ghostscript.comhttps://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6
• git.ghostscript.comhttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=4f73e8b4d578e69a17f452fa60d2130c5faaefd6x_refsource_MISC