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Vulnerability details: VCID-u2ga-cba6-9qh5
Vulnerability ID VCID-u2ga-cba6-9qh5
Aliases CVE-2020-16305
Summary A buffer overflow vulnerability in pcx_write_rle() in contrib/japanese/gdev10v.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.50 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file. This is fixed in v9.51.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-16305.json
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
epss 0.00483 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16305
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16305
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-16305.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-16305
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701819
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16287
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16288
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16289
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16290
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16291
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16292
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16293
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16294
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16295
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16296
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16297
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16298
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16299
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16300
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16301
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16302
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16303
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16304
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16305
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16306
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16307
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16308
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16309
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-16310
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-17538
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2793769ff107d8d22dadd30c6e68cd781b569550
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00032.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-20
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4748
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
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: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-2020-16305 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16305
RHSA-2021:1852 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1852
USN-4469-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4469-1/
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-2020-16305.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

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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://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-2020-16305
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

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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-2020-16305
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

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low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.64221
EPSS Score 0.00483
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:40:52.233639+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.19/main.json 37.0.0