CVE-2020-36773
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36773
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-36773.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-36773
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2024-02-04T18:16:00.713Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-08T05:56:45.621707718Z
- Severity
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- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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).
- Database specific
{ "unresolved_ranges": [ { "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.52.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.52:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "9.52" }, { "last_affected": "9.52" }, { "introduced": "9.52.1" }, { "last_affected": "9.52.1" } ], "vendor_product": "artifex:ghostscript", "source": "CPE_STRING" } ] }- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads
- Events
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IntroducedLast affectedFixed
- Database specific
{ "cpe": [ "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.51:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.53.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.53.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "9.51" }, { "last_affected": "9.51" }, { "introduced": "9.53.0-rc1" }, { "last_affected": "9.53.0-rc1" }, { "introduced": "9.53.0-rc2" }, { "last_affected": "9.53.0-rc2" } ], "source": [ "CPE_STRING", "REFERENCES" ] }