CVE-2010-4820

CVSS V2 Medium 4.4 CVSS V3 None

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2010-4820

Assigner
secalert@redhat.com

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2014-10-27T01:55:23

Last Modified Date
2014-11-02T00:59:21

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-94	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/94.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:ghostscript:ghostscript:8.62:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector
LOCAL

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
4.4

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
3.4

Impact Score
6.4

References

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

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4820
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4820

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 10:29:31				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 02:04:29	2014-10-27T01:55Z	2014-10-27T01:55:23	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 02:04:29		2014-11-02T00:59:21	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 02:04:29		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated