CVE-2024-33869

Publication date 9 May 2024

Last updated 8 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ghostscript	25.04 plucky	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu9
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu9
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 10.01.2~dfsg1-0ubuntu2.3
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.7
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.12
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ghostscript	Upstream: ?id=5ae Upstream: ?id=f53

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6835-1
Ghostscript vulnerabilities
17 June 2024