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CVE-2024-46955

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-46955 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript versions prior to 10.04.0, specifically affecting the handling of Indexed color spaces, and impacts products from Artifex, Debian, and SUSE. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires local access and user interaction to trigger, leading to a potential denial of service. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 10.04.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_high_performance_computing:12.0:sp5:*:*:-:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:12:sp5:*:*:-:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:12:sp5:*:*:ltss:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
21.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0030 is in the 27th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

9001patch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
gatsbyjspatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
joinmastodonpatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
mariadbpatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gimp:flatpak/ghostscript

Vendor Advisories (5)

gatsbyjsllm-gatsbyjs-d2a2db116f1afcf5CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP6 Security Updates

Mar 3, 2025
9001llm-9001-fecf0327d92708b9CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP6 Security Updates

Mar 3, 2025
joinmastodonllm-joinmastodon-9b2d3b3c900c6299CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP6 Security Updates

Mar 3, 2025
mariadbllm-mariadb-7e20cc2309665f3eCRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP6 Security Updates

Mar 3, 2025
redhatCVE-2024-46955Moderate

ghostscript: Out-of-Bounds Read in Ghostscript Indexed Color Space

Nov 10, 2024

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00023.html
bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
Permissions Required
cgit.ghostscript.com / cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit
Patch
github.com / ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/blob/master/doc/News.html
Product
suse.com / support/update/announcement/2024/suse-su-20243942-1
Third Party Advisory