Staging Environment: Content and features may be unstable or change without notice.
Search for vulnerabilities
Vulnerability details: VCID-ue85-9uqn-xye4
Vulnerability ID VCID-ue85-9uqn-xye4
Aliases CVE-2021-45944
Summary ghostscript: use-after-free in sampled_data_sample may lead to DoS
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-416 Use After Free
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-45944.json
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
epss 0.01226 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
cvssv3.1 6.2 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-45944.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45944
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45944
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45949
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
2048916 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2048916
USN-5224-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/5224-1/
USN-5224-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/5224-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-45944.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

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.79078
EPSS Score 0.01226
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T14:00:37.466086+00:00 RedHat Importer Import https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-45944.json 38.0.0