What is CVE-2024-46952?

CVE-2024-46952 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2024-11-10.

How severe is CVE-2024-46952?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Artifex Ghostscript

CVE-2024-46952

An issue was discovered in pdf/pdf_xref.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.04.0. There is a buffer overflow during handling of a PDF XRef stream (related to W array values).

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2024-11-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (22.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 22nd percentile — 22.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript
Debian Linux — versions 12.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi (Permissions Required)
github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html (Product)
cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/ (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-46952?: CVE-2024-46952 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2024-11-10.
How severe is CVE-2024-46952?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.