What is CVE-2024-29507?

CVE-2024-29507 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-07-03.

How severe is CVE-2024-29507?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Artifex Ghostscript

CVE-2024-29507

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 sometimes has a stack-based buffer overflow via the CIDFSubstPath and CIDFSubstFont parameters.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2024-07-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (52.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 52nd percentile — 52.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-120 — Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow)

References

bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
git.ghostscript.com/ (Broken Link)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/7 (Mailing List)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-29507?: CVE-2024-29507 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-07-03.
How severe is CVE-2024-29507?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.