CVE-2024-29510
Published: 03 July 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-29510 is a medium-severity Protection Mechanism Failure (CWE-693) vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 7.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Deeper analysis
Artifex Ghostscript before version 10.03.1 contains a format string injection flaw in the uniprint device that produces memory corruption and permits bypass of the SAFER sandbox. The issue is tracked as CVE-2024-29510 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.3 and is classified under CWE-693.
An unauthenticated local attacker can trigger the vulnerability by supplying crafted input that invokes the uniprint device, requiring only user interaction to achieve memory corruption and a sandbox escape that yields high-impact confidentiality exposure with changed scope.
Public references, including the Ghostscript bug tracker and oss-security postings, identify the defect and point to the 10.03.1 release as the corrective version. The associated EPSS score has remained steady at 0.0823 with no material increase after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-26513
Vulnerability details
Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1 allows memory corruption, and SAFER sandbox bypass, via format string injection with a uniprint device.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Implements a reliable, tamperproof protection mechanism whose completeness can be assured.
Procedures for training on protection mechanisms reduce the chance of protection mechanism failures being present or exploitable.
Documented procedures to implement assessment, authorization, and monitoring controls prevent these protection mechanisms from failing due to undefined processes.
Direct evaluation of whether controls produce desired security outcomes detects protection mechanism failures and enables remediation.
Requires assessment that protection mechanisms are correctly implemented and producing intended security outcomes.
The POA&M process ensures identified weaknesses in protection mechanisms are documented and scheduled for remediation, reducing the duration they remain exploitable.
Ongoing control assessments and analysis of monitoring data enable timely detection and response when protection mechanisms fail.
Impact analysis identifies changes that could weaken or disable existing protection mechanisms.