5.4

CVE-2024-29507: artifex ghostscript

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-29507DEBIAN-CVE-2024-29507
Published 03-07-2024Last modified 03-12-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-29507 is a medium (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability in artifex ghostscript. EPSS estimates a 0.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.4, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.4/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.72%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 1
DSA-5760-1USN-6897-1

Timeline

  1. 03-07-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-12-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 sometimes has a stack-based buffer overflow via the CIDFSubstPath and CIDFSubstFont parameters.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.72%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

54%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.72% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Artifex1 product
Debian1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 | < 10.03.0~dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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