CVE-2010-2055
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
Ghostscript 8.71 and earlier reads initialization files from the current working directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript commands via a Trojan horse file, related to improper support for the -P- option to the gs program, as demonstrated using gs_init.ps, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-4820.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-17
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (43th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2075)
- Published
- July 22, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2075 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / afpl ghostscript
- artifex / ghostscript fonts
- artifex / ghostscript fonts
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
- artifex / gpl ghostscript
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583183
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583316
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339(Exploit)
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691350
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043913.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043948.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
- http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6368
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40452(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40475(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40532(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml
- http://www.osvdb.org/66247
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511472(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511474(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511476
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1757(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608071
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564(Patch)
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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