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CVE-2013-5653
The getenv and filenameforall functions in Ghostscript 9.10 ignore the "-dSAFER" argument, which allows remote attackers to read data via…
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 20% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The getenv and filenameforall functions in Ghostscript 9.10 ignore the "-dSAFER" argument, which allows remote attackers to read data via a crafted postscript file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 20% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- DSA-3691 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0013 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0014 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380327 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697169 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160929 Re: ImageMagick identify "d:" hangs (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 96497 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160929 Re: ImageMagick identify "d:" hangs (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694724 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-5492 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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