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CVE-2024-46954 (GCVE-0-2024-46954)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-10 00:00 – Updated: 2024-11-12 20:26
VLAI
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-12 20:24 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
artifex ghostscript Affected: 10.04.0
    cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:10.04.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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