CVE-2023-4042: A flaw was found in ghostscript | LiveThreat CVE Feed

Medium severity · published Aug 23, 2023

CVE-2023-4042

A flaw was found in ghostscript

5.5

CVSS

0.3%

EPSS

On KEV

Description

A flaw was found in ghostscript. The fix for CVE-2020-16305 in ghostscript was not included in RHSA-2021:1852-06 advisory as it was claimed to be. This issue only affects the ghostscript package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

CVSS vector

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

Attack vector

Local

Complexity

Low

Privileges

None

User interaction

Required

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 27% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

Codeready Linux Builder · Redhat

8.0 · source: NVD

Codeready Linux Builder For Arm64 · Redhat

8.0_aarch64 · source: NVD

Codeready Linux Builder For Ibm Z Systems · Redhat

8.0_s390x · source: NVD

Codeready Linux Builder For Power Little Endian · Redhat

8.0_ppc64le · source: NVD

Enterprise Linux · Redhat

8.0 · source: NVD

Enterprise Linux For Arm 64 · Redhat

8.0_aarch64 · source: NVD

Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems · Redhat

8.0_s390x · source: NVD

Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian · Redhat

8.0_ppc64le · source: NVD

Ghostscript · Artifex

before 9.51 · source: NVD

Affected product

Ghostscript

Artifex

All Ghostscript CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4042

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4042

Third Party Advisory

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7053

Third Party Advisory

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4042

Issue Tracking

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1870257

Issue Tracking

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228151