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🛡️ CVE-2024-46954 — ghostscript

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-46954 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2024-46954 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ghostscript (fixed in 10.04.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 November 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

bugs.ghostscript.com
cgit.ghostscript.com
github.com

CVE-2024-46954 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-11-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ghostscript — 10.04.0

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