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CVE-2023-43115

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.2, gdevijs.c in GhostPDL can lead to remote code execution via crafted PostScript documents because they can switch to the IJS device, or change the IjsServer parameter, after SAFER has been activated. NOTE: it is a documented risk that the IJS server can be specified on a gs command line (the IJS device inherently must execute a command to start the IJS server).

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: through 10.01.2
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 38, 39

References

• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707051
• https://ghostscript.com/
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e59216049cac290fb437a04c4f41ea46826cfba5
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IK3UXJ5HKMPAL5EQELJAWSRPA2AUOJJO/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PG5AQV7JOL5TAU76FWPJCMSKO5DREKV5/
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707051
• https://ghostscript.com/
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e59216049cac290fb437a04c4f41ea46826cfba5
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IK3UXJ5HKMPAL5EQELJAWSRPA2AUOJJO/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PG5AQV7JOL5TAU76FWPJCMSKO5DREKV5/

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