CVE-2005-2536

Published Aug 10, 2005

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: pstotext before 1.8g does not properly use the "-dSAFER" option when calling Ghostscript to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious PostScript file.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.5
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:pstotext:pstotext:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "F75C0ADA-7787-4429-B2D7-F61611525EB9",
            "versionEndIncluding": "1.9.1"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References