CVE-2024-33869

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. Path traversal and command execution can occur (via a crafted PostScript document) because of path reduction in base/gpmisc.c. For example, restrictions on use of %pipe% can be bypassed via the aa/../%pipe%command# output filename.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.3 Medium

Status

Analyzed - cve@mitre.org

Published

2024-07-03

Last modified

2024-10-31

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Ghostscript (Artifex)

References

• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707691
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/28/2