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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2024-33869 json

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1.

published 2024-07-03 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-31574

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. Path traversal and command execution can occur (via a crafted PostScript document) because of path reduction in base/gpmisc.c. For example, restrictions on use of %pipe% can be bypassed via the aa/../%pipe%command# output filename.

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 10.03.1~dfsg~git20240518-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-33869

  • ghostscript Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.12
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.7
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-33869

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  • ghostscript RHEL 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4
  • libgs RHEL 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4
  • ghostscript-x11 RHEL 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4
  • ghostscript-tools-fonts RHEL 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4
  • ghostscript-tools-dvipdf RHEL 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4
  • ghostscript-tools-printing RHEL 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4
  • ghostscript RHEL 9.2 EUS 9.54.0-12.el9_2.2
  • libgs RHEL 9.2 EUS 9.54.0-12.el9_2.2

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:6466RHSA-2024:6197

  • ghostscript SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2 +14 more 9.52-150000.194.1
  • ghostscript SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 9.52-23.80.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:2292-1SUSE-SU-2024:2276-1

  • ghostscript openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.03.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14090-1

  • ghostscript AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4
  • libgs AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4
  • ghostscript-x11 AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4
  • ghostscript-tools-fonts AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4
  • ghostscript-tools-dvipdf AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4
  • ghostscript-tools-printing AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4

almalinux advisories ALSA-2024:6197

  • ghostscript Rocky Linux 9 9.54.0-17.el9_4

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2024:6197

  • 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-2024-33869

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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-2024-33869 updated cvss 5.3

ghostscript: path traversal and command execution due to path reduction

  • 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
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.9.2) ghostscript 9.54.0-12.el9_2.2, ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.54.0-12.el9_2.2, ghostscript-tools-printing 9.54.0-12.el9_2.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6466
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) libgs 9.54.0-17.el9_4, ghostscript 9.54.0-17.el9_4, ghostscript-x11 9.54.0-17.el9_4, ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.54.0-17.el9_4, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 9.54.0-17.el9_4, ghostscript-tools-printing 9.54.0-17.el9_4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6197
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2) libgs 9.54.0-12.el9_2.2, ghostscript 9.54.0-12.el9_2.2, ghostscript-x11 9.54.0-12.el9_2.2, ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.54.0-12.el9_2.2, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 9.54.0-12.el9_2.2, ghostscript-tools-printing 9.54.0-12.el9_2.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6466
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) ghostscript 9.54.0-17.el9_4, ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.54.0-17.el9_4, ghostscript-tools-printing 9.54.0-17.el9_4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6197
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 ghostscript
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

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.