CVE-2002-1569: Ghostview

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

gv 3.5.8, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the filename for (1) a PDF file or (2) a gzip file.

Affected products

• Ghostview Ghostview: version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.5 only
• Gv Gv: version 2.7.6 only; version 2.7b1 only; version 2.7b2 only; version 2.7b3 only; version 2.7b4 only; version 2.7b5 only; …

Published 2003-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.