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CVE-2023-46751

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-46751 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Artifex Ghostscript through version 10.02.0, where a dangling pointer in the gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable() function can lead to application crashes. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating it can be exploited remotely without user interaction to cause a denial of service. While no public exploits, Metasploit modules, or Nuclei templates are currently available, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage, its potential for remote denial of service warrants attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 10.02.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0153 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (4)

denopatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
keraspatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ghostscript-0:9.27-16.el8_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: ghostscript-0:9.54.0-18.el9_6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (3)

denollm-deno-650ac71876afb4f8CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP 2 Security Updates

Apr 12, 2024
kerasllm-keras-d13bbd8768a57997CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP 2 Security Updates

Apr 12, 2024
redhatCVE-2023-46751Moderate

ghostscript: dangling pointer in gdev_prn_open_printer_seekable()

Dec 6, 2023

References

bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
Permissions Required
ghostscript.com
Product
git.ghostscript.com
Broken Link
debian.org / security/2023/dsa-5578