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CVE-2013-5653

ghostscript: getenv and filenameforall ignore -dSAFER

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4

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

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 4
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWE not specified