CVE-2024-33869

Publication date 9 May 2024

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

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

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
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ghostscript

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

Other references