CVE-2024-46954

HIGH

7.8

Description

An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.8

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published11/10/2024

Last Modified8/15/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

artifex:ghostscript

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22CWE-22

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707788(cve@mitre.org)

https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=55f587dd039282316f512e1bea64218fd991f934(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html(cve@mitre.org)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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