5.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
20.4%
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Artifex Ghostscript prior to 10.2.0 due to a flaw found in base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle(). This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service via outputting a crafted PDF file for a DEVN device with gs.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(181614);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/12/15");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-38559");
script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2023-B-0070-S");
script_name(english:"Artifex Ghostscript < 10.2.0 Buffer Overflow");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Windows host contains a library that is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Artifex Ghostscript prior to 10.2.0 due to a flaw found in
base/gdevdevn.c:1973 in devn_pcx_write_rle(). This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial
of service via outputting a crafted PDF file for a DEVN device with gs.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
# https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/gs10.02.0/News.html?utm_source=ghostscript&utm_medium=website&utm_content=inline-link
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?47378e5e");
# https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=d81b82c70bc1
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?9282a456");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Artifex Ghostscript 10.2.0 or later.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-38559");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/07/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/07/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/09/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:artifex:ghostscript");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:artifex:gpl_ghostscript");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Windows");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ghostscript_detect.nbin");
script_require_keys("installed_sw/Ghostscript");
exit(0);
}
include('vcf.inc');
var app = 'Ghostscript';
var constraints = [{'fixed_version' : '10.2.0'}];
var app_info = vcf::get_app_info(app:app, win_local:TRUE);
vcf::check_version_and_report(app_info:app_info, constraints:constraints, severity:SECURITY_WARNING);
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
artifex | ghostscript | cpe:/a:artifex:ghostscript | |
artifex | gpl_ghostscript | cpe:/a:artifex:gpl_ghostscript |
5.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
20.4%