CVE-2005-2471: Netpbm

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pstopnm in netpbm does not properly use the "-dSAFER" option when calling Ghostscript to convert a PostScript file into a (1) PBM, (2) PGM, or (3) PNM file, which allows external user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

• Netpbm Netpbm: version 2.10.0.8 only

Published 2005-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.