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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2010-4820

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.62 allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript code via a Trojan horse Postscript library file in Encoding/ under the current working directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2055.

MEDIUM 4.4EPSS 0.47%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.47%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.62 allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript code via a Trojan horse Postscript library file in Encoding/ under the current working directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2055.

CVSS 2.0
4.4 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
0.47% probability · 41th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-94
Affected
ghostscript/ghostscript
Source
secalert@redhat.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 0.47%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 0.5% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.