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    CVE-2023-36664

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

    Published:Jun 25, 2023
    Last Modified:Aug 28, 2026
    EPS:Jun 25, 2023
    EPSS Score:0.03364
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Artifex
    Product
    Ghostscript
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Eus

    Exploits

    https://github.com/churamanib/CVE-2023-36664-Ghostscript-command-injectionhttps://github.com/jakabakos/CVE-2023-36664-Ghostscript-command-injectionhttps://github.com/jeanchpt/CVE-2023-36664https://github.com/winkler-winsen/Scan_GhostScript

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2025-59800 (CVSS 4.3) — In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1, ocr_begin_page in devices/gdevpdfocr.c has an integer overflow that le…
    CVE-2025-59799 (CVSS 4.3) — Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdfmark_coerce_dest in devices/vector…
    CVE-2025-59798 (CVSS 4.3) — Artifex Ghostscript through 10.05.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in pdf_write_cmap in devices/vector/gdev…
    CVE-2025-48708 (CVSS 4) — gs_lib_ctx_stash_sanitized_arg in base/gslibctx.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.1 lacks argument sanitiz…
    CVE-2025-46646 (CVSS 4.5) — In Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0, decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c mishandles overlong UTF-8 encoding. NOTE:…
    CVE-2025-27832 (CVSS 9.8) — An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The NPDL device has a Compression buffer overfl…
    CVE-2025-27834 (CVSS 7.8) — An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. A buffer overflow occurs via an oversized Type …
    CVE-2025-27836 (CVSS 9.8) — An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. The BJ10V device has a Print buffer overflow in…
    CVE-2025-27830 (CVSS 7.8) — An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. A buffer overflow occurs during serialization o…
    CVE-2025-27833 (CVSS 7.8) — An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.05.0. A buffer overflow occurs for a long TTF font na…

    References

    https://artifex.com/blog/security-vulnerability-fixed-in-ghostscript-10.01.2
    https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706761
    https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=0974e4f2ac0005d3731e0b5c13ebc7e965540f4d
    https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=505eab7782b429017eb434b2b95120855f2b0e3c
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2ICXN5VPF3WJCYKMPSYER5KHTPJXSTJZ/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5EWMEK2UPCUU3ZLL7VASE5CEHDQY4VKV/
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-36664
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03
    https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5446
    https://www.kroll.com/en/publications/cyber/ghostscript-cve-2023-36664-remote-code-execution-vulnerability
    https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706761
    https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0974e4f2ac0005d3731e0b5c13ebc7e965540f4d
    https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=505eab7782b429017eb434b2b95120855f2b0e3c
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2ICXN5VPF3WJCYKMPSYER5KHTPJXSTJZ/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5EWMEK2UPCUU3ZLL7VASE5CEHDQY4VKV/
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03
    https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5446

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