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CVE-2024-33870

There is path traversal (via a crafted PostScript document) to arbitrary files if the current directory is in the permitted paths.

MEDIUM 6.3EPSS 0.52%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.52%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. There is path traversal (via a crafted PostScript document) to arbitrary files if the current directory is in the permitted paths. For example, there can be a transformation of ../../foo to ./../../foo and this will grant access if ./ is permitted.

CVSS 3.1: 6.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS: 0.52% probability · 42th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-22
Affected: artifex/ghostscript
Source: cve@mitre.org

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707686Issue Tracking
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/28/2Mailing List
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707686Issue Tracking
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/28/2Mailing List

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.