CVE-2024-29509: Artifex Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.0 has a heap-based overflow when PDFPassword (e.g., for runpdf) has a \000 byte in the middle.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: before 10.03.0 (fixed in 10.03.0)

Published 2024-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.