CVE-2005-2536: Pstotext

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pstotext before 1.8g does not properly use the "-dSAFER" option when calling Ghostscript to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious PostScript file.

Affected products

• Pstotext Pstotext: up to and including 1.9.1

Published 2005-08-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.