CVE-2020-16304: Artifex Ghostscript

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A buffer overflow vulnerability in image_render_color_thresh() in base/gxicolor.c of Artifex Software GhostScript v9.18 to v9.50 allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via a crafted eps file. This is fixed in v9.51.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: from 9.18, up to and including 9.52
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 20.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only

Published 2020-08-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.