CVE-2024-33870

Publication date 9 May 2024

Last updated 8 July 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. There is path traversal (via a crafted PostScript document) to arbitrary files if the current directory is in the permitted paths. For example, there can be a transformation of ../../foo to ./../../foo and this will grant access if ./ is permitted.

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
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ghostscript

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.3 · Medium
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-6835-1
    • Ghostscript vulnerabilities
    • 17 June 2024

Other references