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Vulnerability details: VCID-f296-1jub-cqg1
Vulnerability ID VCID-f296-1jub-cqg1
Aliases CVE-2024-33870
Summary An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. There is path traversal (via a crafted PostScript document) to arbitrary files if the current directory is in the permitted paths. For example, there can be a transformation of ../../foo to ./../../foo and this will grant access if ./ is permitted.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.1
Risk 3.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal
System Score Found at
cvssv3 6.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-33870.json
epss 0.00051 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
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epss 0.00051 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
epss 0.00051 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
epss 0.00051 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
epss 0.00051 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
epss 0.00051 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
epss 0.00051 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
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epss 0.00053 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
epss 0.00063 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
epss 0.00063 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
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epss 0.00063 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
epss 0.00065 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
cvssv3.1 6.3 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707686
ssvc Track https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707686
cvssv3.1 6.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 6.3 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/28/2
ssvc Track https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/28/2
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-33870.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2024-33870
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-52722
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-29510
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-33869
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-33870
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-33871
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
2 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/28/2
2293959 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293959
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2024-33870 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-33870
RHSA-2024:6197 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6197
RHSA-2024:6466 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6466
show_bug.cgi?id=707686 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707686
USN-6835-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6835-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2024-33870.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:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707686
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-07-22T16:38:36Z/ Found at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707686
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/28/2
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: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-07-22T16:38:36Z/ Found at https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/28/2
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.15884
EPSS Score 0.00051
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:35:30.551174+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.22/main.json 37.0.0