CVE-2023-52722 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1. psi/zmisc1.c, when SAFER mode is used, allows eexec seeds other than the Type 1 standard.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Artifex	Ghostscript

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/28/2
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/commit/?id=afd7188f74918cb51b5fb89f52b54eb16e8acfd1
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52722
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52722

History

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Artifex Artifex ghostscript
Weaknesses		NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript::::::::
Vendors & Products		Artifex Artifex ghostscript

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}`	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-04-27T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-12-04T21:03:25.395Z

Reserved: 2024-04-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2023-52722

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T23:11:35.806Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-04-28T00:15:07.270

Modified: 2025-06-23T18:35:47.363

Link: CVE-2023-52722

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-04-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-52722 - Bugzilla

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