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Vulnerability details: VCID-gmkv-up69-u7c1
Vulnerability ID VCID-gmkv-up69-u7c1
Aliases CVE-2017-9740
Summary Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GPL Ghostscript, the worst of which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 3.0
Risk 1.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
cvssv3 3.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-9740.json
epss 0.00407 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9740
epss 0.00407 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9740
epss 0.00407 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9740
epss 0.00407 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9740
epss 0.00407 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9740
epss 0.00407 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9740
epss 0.00407 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9740
epss 0.00407 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9740
epss 0.00407 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9740
epss 0.00407 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9740
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-9740.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-9740
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9740
1475836 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475836
869879 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=869879
GLSA-201811-12 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-9740.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

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none

low

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required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.61024
EPSS Score 0.00407
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:05:00.956729+00:00 Gentoo Importer Import https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12 38.0.0