CVE-2010-4820
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Ghostscript 8.62 allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript code via a Trojan horse Postscript library file in Encoding/ under the current working directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2055.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-94
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (41th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-4785)
- Published
- October 27, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-4785 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ghostscript / ghostscript
References
- http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0096.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/04/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51847
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771853
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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