CVE-2024-46954

HIGH

Ghostscript < 10.04.0 - Path Traversal via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Permissions Required

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707788

Patch

https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=55f587dd039282316f512e1bea64218fd991f934

Product

https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html

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Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0013

EPSS Percentile 31.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-22

Status published

Products (1)

artifex/ghostscript < 10.04.0

Published Nov 10, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026