#VU41197 Code Injection in Ghostscript - CVE-2010-4820 

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#VU41197 Code Injection in Ghostscript - CVE-2010-4820

Published: October 27, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41197
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-4820
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Ghostscript
Software vendor:
Artifex Software, Inc.

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.62 allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript code via a Trojan horse Postscript library file in Encoding/ under the current working directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2055.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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