#VU93816 Path traversal in Ghostscript - CVE-2024-29511

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#VU93816 Path traversal in Ghostscript - CVE-2024-29511

Published: July 5, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU93816
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-29511
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Ghostscript
Software vendor:
Artifex Software, Inc.

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences when Tesseract is used for OCR. A remote attacker can view arbitrary files on the system.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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