High severity · published Nov 10, 2024
CVE-2024-46954
An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0
7.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 46% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GH
Ghostscript · Artifex
before 10.04.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-46954
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-46954
Permissions Required
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707788
Patch
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=55f587dd039282316f512e1bea64218fd991f934
Product
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html
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