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Vulnerability details: VCID-a3k4-nch1-jfc1
Vulnerability ID VCID-a3k4-nch1-jfc1
Aliases CVE-2024-46954
Summary ghostscript: Directory Traversal in Ghostscript via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
System Score Found at
cvssv3 7.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-46954.json
epss 0.00129 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-46954
cvssv3.1 8.4 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707788
ssvc Track https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707788
cvssv3.1 8.4 https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=55f587dd039282316f512e1bea64218fd991f934
ssvc Track https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=55f587dd039282316f512e1bea64218fd991f934
cvssv3.1 8.4 https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html
ssvc Track https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-46954.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-46954
2325044 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325044
GLSA-202501-06 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202501-06
?id=55f587dd039282316f512e1bea64218fd991f934 https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=55f587dd039282316f512e1bea64218fd991f934
News.html https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html
RHSA-2025:4362 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4362
RHSA-2025:7422 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7422
RHSA-2025:7499 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7499
show_bug.cgi?id=707788 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707788
USN-7103-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/7103-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-46954.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707788
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-11-12T20:24:52Z/ Found at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707788
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=55f587dd039282316f512e1bea64218fd991f934
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-11-12T20:24:52Z/ Found at https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=55f587dd039282316f512e1bea64218fd991f934
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-11-12T20:24:52Z/ Found at https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.31924
EPSS Score 0.00129
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T08:57:56.665647+00:00 RedHat Importer Import https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-46954.json 38.6.0