Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2023-36664 json

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix…

published 2023-06-25 3 y ago modified 2026-08-28 2 mo ago also EUVD-2023-40608

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.9%
EPSS 3.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).

Patch / fix

  • artifex ghostscript 10.01.2
  • ghostscript Debian 12 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u1
  • ghostscript Debian 14, Debian 13 10.01.2~dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-36664

  • ghostscript Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.8
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-36664

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ghostscript RHEL 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2
  • libgs RHEL 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2
  • ghostscript-x11 RHEL 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2
  • ghostscript-tools-fonts RHEL 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2
  • ghostscript-tools-dvipdf RHEL 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2
  • ghostscript-tools-printing RHEL 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2
  • ghostscript RHEL 9.0 EUS 9.54.0-7.el9_0.1
  • libgs RHEL 9.0 EUS 9.54.0-7.el9_0.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:5459RHSA-2023:4324

  • ghostscript SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +6 more 9.52-23.54.1
  • ghostscript SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES for SAP 15 SP1 +16 more 9.52-150000.167.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:2844-1SUSE-SU-2023:2829-1

  • ghostscript openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.56.1-4.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13036-1

  • ghostscript AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2
  • libgs AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2
  • ghostscript-x11 AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2
  • ghostscript-tools-fonts AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2
  • ghostscript-tools-dvipdf AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2
  • ghostscript-tools-printing AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2

almalinux advisories ALSA-2023:5459

  • ghostscript Rocky Linux 9 9.54.0-10.el9_2

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2023:5459

  • ghostscript Alpine 3.15 9.55.0-r2
  • ghostscript Alpine 3.16 9.56.1-r2

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-36664

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-36664 updated cvss 8.4

ghostscript: vulnerable to OS command injection due to mishandles permission validation for pipe devices

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.9.0) ghostscript 9.54.0-7.el9_0.1, ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.54.0-7.el9_0.1, ghostscript-tools-printing 9.54.0-7.el9_0.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:4324
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) libgs 9.54.0-10.el9_2, ghostscript 9.54.0-10.el9_2, ghostscript-x11 9.54.0-10.el9_2, ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.54.0-10.el9_2, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 9.54.0-10.el9_2, ghostscript-tools-printing 9.54.0-10.el9_2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:5459
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0) libgs 9.54.0-7.el9_0.1, ghostscript 9.54.0-7.el9_0.1, ghostscript-x11 9.54.0-7.el9_0.1, ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.54.0-7.el9_0.1, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 9.54.0-7.el9_0.1, ghostscript-tools-printing 9.54.0-7.el9_0.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:4324
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) ghostscript 9.54.0-10.el9_2, ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.54.0-10.el9_2, ghostscript-tools-printing 9.54.0-10.el9_2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:5459
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libgs, ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk, ghostscript-cups Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libgs, ghostscript, ghostscript-x11, ghostscript-tools-fonts, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, ghostscript-tools-printing
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-24-046-11 updated cvss 7.8

Siemens SCALANCE XCM-/XRM-300

  • Siemens SCALANCE XCH328 (6GK5328-4TS01-2EC2) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XCM324 (6GK5324-8TS01-2AC2) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XCM328 (6GK5328-4TS01-2AC2) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XCM332 (6GK5332-0GA01-2AC2) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XRH334 (24 V DC, 8xFO, CC) (6GK5334-2TS01-2ER3) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XRM334 (2x230 V AC, 8xFO) (6GK5334-2TS01-4AR3) <V2.4
    +5 more products
    Siemens SCALANCE XRM334 (2x230 V AC, 12xFO) (6GK5334-3TS01-4AR3) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XRM334 (24 V DC, 8xFO) (6GK5334-2TS01-2AR3) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XRM334 (24 V DC, 12xFO) (6GK5334-3TS01-2AR3) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XRM334 (230 V AC, 8xFO) (6GK5334-2TS01-3AR3) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XRM334 (230 V AC, 12xFO) (6GK5334-3TS01-3AR3) <V2.4
    affected: fixed in V2.4 support.industry.siemens.com

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

3.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-552 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.