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Fencer Vulns
high 8.4

CVE-2024-46954 json

An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0.

published 2024-11-10 23 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-42157

cvss
8.4
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 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal.

Patch / fix

  • artifex ghostscript 10.04.0
  • ghostscript ghostscript 10.04.0
  • ghostscript Debian 14, Debian 13 10.04.0~dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46954

  • ghostscript Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46954

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  • ghostscript RHEL 10.0 10.02.1-15.el10_0
  • libgs RHEL 10.0 10.02.1-15.el10_0
  • ghostscript-tools-fonts RHEL 10.0 10.02.1-15.el10_0
  • ghostscript-tools-dvipdf RHEL 10.0 10.02.1-15.el10_0
  • ghostscript-tools-printing RHEL 10.0 10.02.1-15.el10_0
  • ghostscript RHEL 9 9.54.0-18.el9_6
  • libgs RHEL 9 9.54.0-18.el9_6
  • ghostscript-x11 RHEL 9 9.54.0-18.el9_6

red hat advisories RHSA-2025:7499RHSA-2025:7422RHSA-2025:4362

  • ghostscript openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.04.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14423-1

  • ghostscript AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-18.el9_6
  • libgs AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-18.el9_6
  • ghostscript-x11 AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-18.el9_6
  • ghostscript-tools-fonts AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-18.el9_6
  • ghostscript-tools-dvipdf AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-18.el9_6
  • ghostscript-tools-printing AlmaLinux 9 9.54.0-18.el9_6
  • ghostscript AlmaLinux 8 9.27-16.el8_10
  • libgs AlmaLinux 8 9.27-16.el8_10

almalinux advisories ALSA-2025:7422ALSA-2025:4362

  • ghostscript Rocky Linux 8 9.27-16.el8_10

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2025:4362

  • ghostscript Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +4 more 10.04.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-46954

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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-2024-46954 updated cvss 7.8

ghostscript: Directory Traversal in Ghostscript via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libgs, ghostscript, ghostscript-gtk, ghostscript-cups
    affected: 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: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) libgs 9.27-16.el8_10, ghostscript 9.27-16.el8_10, ghostscript-x11 9.27-16.el8_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:4362
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) libgs 9.54.0-18.el9_6, ghostscript 9.54.0-18.el9_6, ghostscript-x11 9.54.0-18.el9_6, ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.54.0-18.el9_6, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 9.54.0-18.el9_6, ghostscript-tools-printing 9.54.0-18.el9_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:7422
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) libgs 10.02.1-15.el10_0, ghostscript 10.02.1-15.el10_0, ghostscript-tools-fonts 10.02.1-15.el10_0, ghostscript-tools-printing 10.02.1-15.el10_0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:7499
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) ghostscript 9.54.0-18.el9_6, ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.54.0-18.el9_6, ghostscript-tools-printing 9.54.0-18.el9_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:7422
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10) ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 10.02.1-15.el10_0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:7499
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) ghostscript-tools-fonts 9.27-16.el8_10, ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 9.27-16.el8_10, ghostscript-tools-printing 9.27-16.el8_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:4362

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • artifex ghostscript

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.