{"id":"CVE-2005-2536","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2005-2536","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:44:17.606Z","title":"pstotext before 1.8g does not properly use the \"-dSAFER\" option when calling Ghostscript to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious PostScript file.","description":"pstotext before 1.8g does not properly use the \"-dSAFER\" option when calling Ghostscript to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious PostScript file.","published":"2005-08-10T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:15:10.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["pstotext/pstotext"],"epss":{"score":0.02336,"percentile":0.83474,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.34%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/16305","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/16624","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/16305","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/16624","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2536","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}