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CVE-2022-2085

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2085 is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in Ghostscript, affecting Artifex and Fedora Ghostscript products. This flaw occurs when Ghostscript attempts to render an image with more than 64 bits per pixel, leading to an application crash. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and resulting in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.55.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.55.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0141 is in the 80th 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-2085Moderate

ghostscript: Null pointer dereference in gx_default_create_buf_device()

Feb 14, 2022

References

git.ghostscript.com
bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingMailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ERSZX5LKDWAHZWJYBMP2E2UHOPUCDEGV
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202211-11
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202309-03