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CVE-2001-1353

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ghostscript before 6.51 allows local users to read and write arbitrary files as the 'lp' user via the file operator, even with -dSAFER enabled.

Affected products

• Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript: through 6.51

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2001-q4/0069.html
• http://marc.info/?l=lprng&m=100083210910857&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2001-112.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-138.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2001-q4/0069.html
• http://marc.info/?l=lprng&m=100083210910857&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2001-112.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-138.html

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