CVE-2010-4820 — Code Injection in Ghostscript

CWE-94 — Code Injection9 documents7 sources
Severity
4.4MEDIUMNVD
CNA7.2OSV7.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 70.51%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Artifex GhostscriptGhostscript
Timeline
PublishedOct 27
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.62 allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript code via a Trojan horse Postscript library file in Encoding/ under the current working directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2055.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 3.4 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianartifex/ghostscript< 8.71~dfsg2-6.1+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-37q2-9vp4-q6f4: Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2010-4820: Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8↗2014-10-27
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CVEList
CVE-2010-4820: Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8↗2014-10-27
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
ghostscript: CWD included in the default library search path↗2010-05-26
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Red Hat
ghostscript: gs_init.ps searched in current directory despite -P-↗2010-05-26
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Debian
CVE-2010-4820: ghostscript - Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.62 allows local users to ex...↗2010
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2010-4820 ghostscript: CWD included in the default library search path↗2012-01-05
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