CVE-2000-1163: Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ghostscript before 5.10-16 uses an empty LD_RUN_PATH environmental variable to find libraries in the current directory, which could allow local users to execute commands as other users by placing a Trojan horse library into a directory from which another user executes ghostscript.

Affected products

• Aladdin Enterprises Ghostscript: version 4.3 only; version 5.10.10 only; version 5.10.15 only; version 5.10cl only; version 5.50 only

Published 2001-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.