Vulnerability Details : CVE-2020-36773

Artifex Ghostscript before 9.53.0 has an out-of-bounds write and use-after-free in devices/vector/gdevtxtw.c (for txtwrite) because a single character code in a PDF document can map to more than one Unicode code point (e.g., for a ligature).
Published 2024-02-04 18:16:01
Updated 2024-03-04 23:04:24
Source MITRE
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Memory Corruption

Products affected by CVE-2020-36773

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2020-36773

EPSS FAQ
0.09%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 23 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2020-36773

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
9.8
 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.9
5.9
 NIST 2024-02-13

CWE ids for CVE-2020-36773

  • The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
    Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
  • The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
    Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2020-36773

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