CVE-2024-46954

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
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: 2024-11-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

An issue was discovered in decode_utf8 in base/gp_utf8.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. Overlong UTF-8 encoding leads to possible ../ directory traversal.

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript: before 10.04.0 — fixed in 10.04.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Artifex Ghostscript 10.04.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707788
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=55f587dd039282316f512e1bea64218fd991f934
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html

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