CVE-2010-2055: Artifex Afpl Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ghostscript 8.71 and earlier reads initialization files from the current working directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary PostScript commands via a Trojan horse file, related to improper support for the -P- option to the gs program, as demonstrated using gs_init.ps, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-4820.

Affected products

• Artifex Afpl Ghostscript: version 6.0 only; version 6.01 only; version 6.50 only; version 7.00 only; version 7.03 only; version 7.04 only; …
• Artifex Ghostscript Fonts: version 6.0 only; version 8.11 only
• Artifex Gpl Ghostscript: up to and including 8.71; version 8.01 only; version 8.15 only; version 8.50 only; version 8.51 only; version 8.54 only; …

Published 2010-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.