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CVE-2023-36664

Publication date 25 June 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ghostscript 23.04 lunar
Fixed 10.0.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu1.2
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 9.56.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu3.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 9.55.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu5.3
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.8
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-6213-1
    • Ghostscript vulnerability
    • 10 July 2023

Other references