Vulnerability in Artifex Afpl Ghostscript

CVE-2010-2055

Ghostscript 8.71 and earlier reads initialization files from the current working directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript commands via a Trojan horse file, related to improper support for the -P- option to the gs program, as demonstrated using gs_init.ps, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-4820.

EPSS: 0.005 (40.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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