CVE-2013-5653

Public on 2017-01-10
Modified on 2017-01-10
Description
It was found that the ghostscript functions getenv and filenameforall did not honor the -dSAFER option, usually used when processing untrusted documents, leading to information disclosure. A specially crafted postscript document could read environment variable and list directory respectively, from the target.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.0
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 ghostscript 2017-01-10 ALAS-2017-784 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N