CVE-2005-2536 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2005-08-10

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 1.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:pstotext:pstotext:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-2537	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01079.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/16183/
http://secunia.com/advisories/16305
http://secunia.com/advisories/16624
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-792
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-29.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14378
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21498

History

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Subscriptions

Pstotext Pstotext

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-08-10T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:30:01.185Z

Reserved: 2005-08-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-2536

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-08-10T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-2536

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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