{"id":"CVE-2017-5951","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-5951","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:11:38.091Z","title":"Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file.","description":"The mem_get_bits_rectangle function in base/gdevmem.c in Artifex Software, Inc. Ghostscript 9.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file.","published":"2017-04-03T05:59:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:21:30.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["artifex/ghostscript"],"epss":{"score":0.01944,"percentile":0.80046,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.03257,"percentile":0.87811},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.01867,"percentile":0.78383}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.94%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98665","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697548","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98665","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697548","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5951","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."}