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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2023-52722 json

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1.

published 2024-04-27 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-57346

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 26%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. psi/zmisc1.c, when SAFER mode is used, allows eexec seeds other than the Type 1 standard.

Patch / fix

  • artifex ghostscript 10.03.1
  • ghostscript ghostscript 10.03.1
  • ghostscript Debian 12 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u4
  • ghostscript Debian 14, Debian 13 10.02.0~dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52722

  • ghostscript Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.12
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.7

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52722

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 SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.6 +1 more 9.52-150000.188.1
  • ghostscript SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 9.52-23.74.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1590-2SUSE-SU-2024:1590-1SUSE-SU-2024:1568-1

  • ghostscript openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.03.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14090-1

  • ghostscript Alpine 3.18 10.04.0-r0
  • ghostscript Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +3 more 10.03.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-52722

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-2023-52722 updated cvss 5.3

ghostscript: eexec seeds other than the Type 1 standard are allowed while using SAFER mode

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libgs, ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk, ghostscript-cups
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libgs, ghostscript, ghostscript-x11, ghostscript-tools-fonts, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, ghostscript-tools-printing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 libgs, ghostscript, ghostscript-x11, ghostscript-tools-fonts, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf, ghostscript-tools-printing
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 ghostscript
    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 SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.