CVE-2023-36664

CRITICALNVD 7.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2023-06-26. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 2.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2023-40608 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 3.9%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
3.9%
EPSS %ILE
90th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
3.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

June 25, 2023

Last Modified

August 28, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Aug 27, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

[SECURITY] [DSA 5446-1] ghostscript security update

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5446
Web page

GPL Ghostscript: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202309-03) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-03
Web page

[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: ghostscript-10.01.2-1.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5EWMEK2UPCUU3ZLL7VASE5CEHDQY4VKV/
Web page

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: ghostscript-9.56.1-8.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2ICXN5VPF3WJCYKMPSYER5KHTPJXSTJZ/

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-36664(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibgs9-common (10.0.0~dfsg1-0ubuntu1.2) @ lunar2026-11-01ubuntu
redhatghostscript-0:9.54.0-10.el9_22023-10-05redhat
redhatghostscript-0:9.54.0-7.el9_0.12023-07-31redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(6 across 6 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.15(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 9.55.0-r2: fixed in 9.55.0-r2
—
Alpine:v3.16(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 9.56.1-r2: fixed in 9.56.1-r2
—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript9.53.3~dfsg-7, 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u1, 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u2, 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u3, 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u4
  • every version up to 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u5: fixed in 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u5
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript10.0.0~dfsg-11
  • every version up to 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u1: fixed in 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.01.2~dfsg-1: fixed in 10.01.2~dfsg-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.01.2~dfsg-1: fixed in 10.01.2~dfsg-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(3)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 24× in last 7d / 91× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 274 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 174 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 21:51 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-01 21:51 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-01 21:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-31 20:43 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-31 20:43 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-31 20:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-10-31 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  9. 2026-10-30 19:36 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-30 19:36 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-30 19:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-30 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  13. 2026-10-29 18:15 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-29 18:15 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-29 18:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-29 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  17. 2026-10-28 17:08 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-28 17:08 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-28 17:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-28 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  21. 2026-10-27 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  22. 2026-10-27 16:01 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-27 16:01 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-27 16:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-26 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-26 14:49 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-26 14:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-25 17:39 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-25 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  5. 2026-10-25 12:51 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-25 12:51 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-25 12:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-10-24 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  9. 2026-10-24 11:43 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-24 11:43 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-24 11:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-23 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  13. 2026-10-23 10:35 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-23 10:35 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-23 10:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-22 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  17. 2026-10-22 09:26 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-22 09:26 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-22 09:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  21. 2026-10-21 08:18 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-21 08:18 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-21 08:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-10-20 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  25. 2026-10-20 07:10 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-20 07:10 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-20 07:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  28. 2026-10-19 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  29. 2026-10-19 06:02 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-19 06:02 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-19 06:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  32. 2026-10-18 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  33. 2026-10-18 04:53 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-18 04:53 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-18 04:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  36. 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  37. 2026-10-17 03:43 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-10-17 03:43 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-17 03:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  40. 2026-10-16 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 90th percentile
  41. 2026-10-16 02:32 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-10-16 02:32 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-16 02:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  44. 2026-10-15 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 89th percentile
  45. 2026-10-14 22:33 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-10-14 22:33 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-14 22:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  48. 2026-10-14 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 89th percentile
  49. 2026-10-13 18:08 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-10-13 18:08 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-13 18:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  52. 2026-10-13 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 89th percentile
  53. 2026-10-12 16:59 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-12 16:59 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-12 16:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9gf6-5j7x-x3m9 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  56. 2026-10-12 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 89th percentile
  57. 2026-10-11 21:49 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-10-11 13:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 89th percentile
  59. 2026-10-10 19:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 89th percentile
  60. 2026-10-09 20:05 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 89th percentile
  61. 2026-10-08 17:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 89th percentile
  62. 2026-10-07 23:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 89th percentile
  63. 2026-10-06 15:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.9% · 89th percentile
  64. 2026-10-06 09:19 UTCOSV refresh
  65. 2026-10-05 17:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.0% · 90th percentile
  66. 2026-10-04 23:20 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.0% · 90th percentile
  67. 2026-10-03 14:23 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.0% · 90th percentile
  68. 2026-09-30 16:26 UTCEG score recompute
  69. 2026-09-30 15:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.0% · 90th percentile
  70. 2026-09-29 15:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.0% · 90th percentile
  71. 2026-09-28 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.0% · 90th percentile
  72. 2026-09-27 13:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.0% · 90th percentile
  73. 2026-09-26 15:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.0% · 90th percentile
  74. 2026-09-26 00:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.0% · 90th percentile
  75. 2026-09-24 14:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.2% · 90th percentile

Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoCjakabakos/CVE-2023-36664-Ghostscript-command-injection
    Published Aug 12, 2023

    Ghostscript command injection vulnerability PoC (CVE-2023-36664)

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-36664?
CVE-2023-36664 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 25, 2023. Artifex Ghostscript before 10.01.2 mishandles permission validation for pipe devices (with the %pipe% prefix or the | pipe character prefix).
When was the CVE record for CVE-2023-36664 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2023-36664 was published on June 25, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of August 28, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-36664 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-36664 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (90th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-36664?
CVE-2023-36664 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-36664?
A fix for CVE-2023-36664 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2023-36664 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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