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CVE-2010-4820

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4820 is an untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.62, allowing local users to execute arbitrary PostScript code. This can be achieved by placing a malicious PostScript library file in the Encoding/ subdirectory of the current working directory. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.4, indicating a medium attack complexity and requiring local access, but potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.62CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ghostscript:ghostscript:8.62:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.4MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0047 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: ghostscript-0:7.07-33.13.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ghostscript-0:8.70-6.el5_7.6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ghostscript-0:8.70-11.el6_2.6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-4820Moderate

ghostscript: CWD included in the default library search path

May 26, 2010

References

bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0096.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/01/04/7
securityfocus.com / archive/1/511433
securityfocus.com / bid/51847