CVE-2023-36664
High · CVSS 7.8- CVSS
- 7.8
- nvd
- EPSS
- 3.36%
- 88th pct
- KEV
- No
- Class
- oss containerizable
- NVD-CWE-Other, CWE-552
Description
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).
References
- https://artifex.com/blog/security-vulnerability-fixed-in-ghostscript-10.01.2
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706761
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0974e4f2ac0005d3731e0b5c13ebc7e965540f4d
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=505eab7782b429017eb434b2b95120855f2b0e3c
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2ICXN5VPF3WJCYKMPSYER5KHTPJXSTJZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5EWMEK2UPCUU3ZLL7VASE5CEHDQY4VKV/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-36664
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5446
- https://www.kroll.com/en/publications/cyber/ghostscript-cve-2023-36664-remote-code-execution-vulnerability
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706761
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0974e4f2ac0005d3731e0b5c13ebc7e965540f4d
Status: profiled · ingested 2026-08-28T18:00:49.000Z