CVE-2005-2536

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.5/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Aug 10, 2005
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2005-2536: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix