Vulnerability in Pstotext
CVE-2005-2536
pstotext before 1.8g does not properly use the "-dSAFER" option when calling Ghostscript to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious PostScript file.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.023 (83.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/16305 (third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/16624 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/16183/ (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378 (vdb-entry)