CVE-2024-33869
5.3
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.01%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2024-33869
To remediate CVE-2024-33869, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/ghostscript—upgrade to 10.04.0-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7 or later
Is CVE-2024-33869 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 10.04.0-r0
- from 0, < 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |