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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2024-46955 json

An issue was discovered in psi/zcolor.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0.

published 2024-11-10 23 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-42158

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 22%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in psi/zcolor.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is an out-of-bounds read when reading color in Indexed color space.

Patch / fix

  • artifex ghostscript 10.04.0
  • ghostscript ghostscript 10.04.0
  • ghostscript Debian 12 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6
  • ghostscript Debian 14, Debian 13 10.04.0~dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46955

  • ghostscript Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.14
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.10
  • ghostscript Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.4
  • ghostscript Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.16.04.14+esm8
  • ghostscript Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.18+esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46955

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 SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2 +14 more 9.52-150000.200.1
  • ghostscript SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 9.52-23.86.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:3942-1SUSE-SU-2024:3941-1

  • ghostscript openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.04.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14423-1

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

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-46955

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-2024-46955 updated cvss 5.5

ghostscript: Out-of-Bounds Read in Ghostscript Indexed Color Space

  • 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 available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 ghostscript
    affected: workaround, no fix available

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
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 22% 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:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • artifex ghostscript

Classification

Weakness

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.