🛡️ CVE-2024-33870 on Debian — ghostscript

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-33870 as tracked by Debian, for the package ghostscript. The fix is available in version 10.03.1~dfsg~git20240518-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability low.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-33870 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

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-33870 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ghostscript (fixed in 10.03.1~dfsg~git20240518-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 July 2024 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-07-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ghostscript — 10.03.1~dfsg~git20240518-1

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