5.5

CVE-2017-15652: artifex ghostscript

CVSS: 5.5v3.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2017-15652DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15652
Published 23-05-2019Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-15652 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in artifex ghostscript. EPSS estimates a 1.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.30%
0%100%
Low · -0.26 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 23-05-2019
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Artifex Ghostscript 9.22 is affected by: Obtain Information. The impact is: obtain sensitive information. The component is: affected source code file, affected function, affected executable, affected libga (imagemagick used that). The attack vector is: Someone must open a postscript file though ghostscript. Because of imagemagick also use libga, so it was affected as well.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.30%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

70%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.26 pp

From 1.56% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
1.30%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (bugs.ghostscript.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Artifex1 product
Debian1 product
  • ghostscript< 9.25~dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • ghostscript< 9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9

3 vendors · 3 products

References

7 links