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Vulnerability details: VCID-hme4-wfns-bkhg
Vulnerability ID VCID-hme4-wfns-bkhg
Aliases CVE-2021-45949
Summary Ghostscript GhostPDL 9.50 through 9.54.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in sampled_data_finish (called from sampled_data_continue and interp).
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-45949.json
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
epss 0.00035 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
cvssv3.1 6.2 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45949
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45949
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2021-45949.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45949
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=34675
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
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2a3129365d3bc0d4a41f107ef175920d1505d1f7
https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/ghostscript/OSV-2021-803.yaml
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00006.html
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5038
2048939 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2048939
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2021-45949 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45949
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-2021-45949.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: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)

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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45949
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45949
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

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required

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.08714
EPSS Score 0.00035
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:35:37.748656+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/5224-2/ 37.0.0