CVE-2024-29511

highpriority · track · 0OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.011 · 66 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.14% (66th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

16 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1, when Tesseract is used for OCR, has a directory traversal issue that allows arbitrary file reading (and writing of error messages to arbitrary files) via OCRLanguage. For example, exploitation can use debug_file /tmp/out and user_patterns_file /etc/passwd.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.9–7.5

v3.17.5highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondaryexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USCWE-489USCWE-489US

affected products (16)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Amazon Linux 2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:amazon:linux_2:-
Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Fedora Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:-
Open Source Ghostscript <10.03.1all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
Open Source Ghostscript< 10.03.1cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Artifex Software Inc. Ghostscript≤ 10.03.0fstec_bduRU
АО «ИВК» АЛЬТ СП 10all versionsfstec_bduRU
ООО «Ред Софт» РЕД ОС≤ 7.3fstec_bduRU
artifex ghostscript< 10.03.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-1525Ghostscript: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-07-03csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer oder lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Ghostscript ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen, beliebigen Code auszuführen und Dateien zu manipulieren.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2024-07-03modified 2026-06-17

references (11)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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