7.5

CVE-2024-29511: artifex ghostscript Active Debug Code

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-29511DEBIAN-CVE-2024-29511CGA-c4wx-c4vc-g54v
Published 03-07-2024Last modified 02-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-29511 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Active Debug Code vulnerability in artifex ghostscript. EPSS estimates a 1.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.14%
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 1 · Related 3
USN-6897-1CGA-3H6H-CQX4-V395CGA-4V6H-V2MH-9HHX

Timeline

  1. 03-07-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 02-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading (and writing of error messages to arbitrary files) via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 6 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.14%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

67%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 1.14% 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, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Artifex1 product
Chainguard1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.03.1-r0
Debian1 product
  • ghostscriptAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 10.03.0~dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • ghostscript< 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.9 | < 10.02.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu7.3
Wolfi1 product
  • ghostscript< 10.03.1-r0

5 vendors · 5 products

References

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