CVE-2010-4820

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

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.

Affected products

ghostscript: 8.62

References

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0096.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/04/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51847
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771853
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0096.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/04/7

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