CVE-2013-5653
ghostscript: getenv and filenameforall ignore -dSAFER
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · October 21, 2013
Updated · May 13, 2026
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 4CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 · 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CWE not specified