CVE-2024-46954

ghostscript: Directory Traversal in Ghostscript via Overlong UTF-8 Encoding

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · November 10, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in Ghostscript/base/gp_utf8.c. This vulnerability allows directory traversal via overlong UTF-8 encoding, potentially leading to unauthorized access to filesystem directories.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')