TI-2023-29055 Aliases CVE-2023-52722 GHSA-5473-w6gq-5r5g

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1.

LOW 25Published 2024-04-27 · Updated 2024-12-04

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · High · None
Fix status: Will not fix Red Hat: no fix planned

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. psi/zmisc1.c, when SAFER mode is used, allows eexec seeds other than the Type 1 standard.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.0033 26th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Will not fix Red Hat: no fix planned

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	—	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA

— Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript::::::::	before 10.03.1	Vulnerable	Artifex

cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 10.03.1 Vulnerable ·Artifex

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Affected	No fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Affected	No fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Affected	No fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Affected	No fix planned: Will not fix

Not affected: 1 product

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-52722
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5473-w6gq-5r5g

References

Patch 1

https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=afd7188f74918cb51b5fb89f52b54eb16e8acfd1

Other 1

[oss-security] 20240628 Ghostscript 10.03.1 (2024-05-02) fixed 5 CVEs including CVE-2024-33871 arbitrary code execution

TI-2017-05861 Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
TI-2021-02712 Improper input validation in ghostscript CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
TI-2023-13382 In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2018-11841 An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.8
TI-2024-19474 Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2020-14200 Buffer Overflow vulnerability in clj_media_size function in devices/gdevclj.c in Artifex… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8

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Sources

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