CVE-2020-17538

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

1.93% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 78.2% 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

Modified. 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 02:10Z6 YR AGO

Last updated

2025-03-24 20:28Z1 YR AGO

Reserved

2020-08-12

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

Data version

5.1

Document digest

860871f71c783efccd372de549ce9c01519376cd05564c5aa463a8e0cbf70924

• bugs.ghostscript.comhttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701792
• git.ghostscript.comhttps://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134
• 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/lips4/gdevlips.c?h=ghostscript-9.18#n148
• git.ghostscript.comhttps://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9f39ed4a92578a020ae10459643e1fe72573d134x_refsource_MISC