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CVE-2023-43115: artifex ghostscript

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighModified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2023-43115MGASA-2023-0290SUSE-SU-2023:3938-1
Published 18-09-2023Last modified 02-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-43115 is a high (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in artifex ghostscript. EPSS estimates a 5.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
36/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
5.96%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 2
CGA-55Q2-MH3X-C56FCGA-XWWP-P25J-RC43

Timeline

  1. 18-09-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 02-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.2, gdevijs.c in GhostPDL can lead to remote code execution via crafted PostScript documents because they can switch to the IJS device, or change the IjsServer parameter, after SAFER has been activated. NOTE: it is a documented risk that the IJS server can be specified on a gs command line (the IJS device inherently must execute a command to start the IJS server).

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 7 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

5.96%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

93%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 5.96% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
5.96%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Suse18 products
  • ghostscript&distro=SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1< 9.52-150000.173.2
  • ghostscript&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS< 9.52-150000.173.2
  • ghostscript&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS< 9.52-150000.173.2
  • ghostscript&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS< 9.52-150000.173.2
  • ghostscript&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS< 9.52-150000.173.2
Redhat13 products
  • ghostscript< 0:9.54.0-7.el9_0.2 | < 0:9.54.0-11.el9_2 | < 0:9.54.0-14.el9_3
  • ghostscript-debuginfo< 0:9.54.0-7.el9_0.2 | < 0:9.54.0-11.el9_2 | < 0:9.54.0-14.el9_3
  • ghostscript-debugsource< 0:9.54.0-7.el9_0.2 | < 0:9.54.0-11.el9_2 | < 0:9.54.0-14.el9_3
  • ghostscript-doc< 0:9.54.0-7.el9_0.2 | < 0:9.54.0-11.el9_2 | < 0:9.54.0-14.el9_3
  • ghostscript-gtk-debuginfo< 0:9.54.0-7.el9_0.2 | < 0:9.54.0-11.el9_2 | < 0:9.54.0-14.el9_3
Opensuse4 products
  • ghostscript&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.4< 9.52-150000.173.2
  • ghostscript&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.5< 9.52-150000.173.2
  • ghostscript&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 9.56.1-6.1
  • python-ocrmypdf&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 17.4.2-1.1
Mageia2 products
  • ghostscript< 9.53.3-2.7.mga8
  • ghostscript< 10.00.0-6.3.mga9
Alpine1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.02.0-r0
Artifex1 product
Chainguard1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.02.0-r0
Debian1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u2 | < 10.02.0~dfsg-1
Fedoraproject1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • ghostscriptAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.11 | < 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.5
Wolfi1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.02.0-r0

11 vendors · 44 products

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