CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2010-4820

MEDIUM
4.4
CVSS v2
NVD

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.

How to fix

Remediation Available
ghostscriptDebian
Fixed in:8.71~dfsg2-6.1CVE-2010-4820
Fixed in:8.71~dfsg2-6.1CVE-2010-4820
Fixed in:8.71~dfsg2-6.1CVE-2010-4820
Fixed in:8.71~dfsg2-6.1CVE-2010-4820

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

0.47%probability of exploitation in 30 days
37thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 37% of all known CVEs.

References

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