CVE-2023-43115

CRITICALNVD 8.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2023-09-18. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8; sources differ by 1.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Elevated

Also known asEUVD-2023-47536 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 6.4%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.2, gdevijs.c in GhostPDL can lead to remote code execution via crafted PostScript documents because they can switch to the IJS device, or change the IjsServer parameter, after SAFER has been activated. NOTE: it is a documented risk that the IJS server can be specified on a gs command line (the IJS device inherently must execute a command to start the IJS server).

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
6.4%
EPSS %ILE
93rd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
6.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-11). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 18, 2023

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Aug 24, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: ghostscript-10.01.2-4.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PG5AQV7JOL5TAU76FWPJCMSKO5DREKV5/
Web page

[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: ghostscript-10.01.2-4.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IK3UXJ5HKMPAL5EQELJAWSRPA2AUOJJO/
Web page

Ghostscript

https://ghostscript.com/

Patch Availability(4)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibgs9-common (10.01.2~dfsg1-0ubuntu2.1) @ mantic2026-11-11ubuntu
redhatghostscript-0:9.54.0-14.el9_32023-11-07redhat
redhatghostscript-0:9.54.0-11.el9_22023-11-02redhat
redhatghostscript-0:9.54.0-7.el9_0.22023-10-18redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(11 across 11 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.18(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.02.0-r0: fixed in 10.02.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.19(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.02.0-r0: fixed in 10.02.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.20(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.02.0-r0: fixed in 10.02.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.21(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.02.0-r0: fixed in 10.02.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.22(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.02.0-r0: fixed in 10.02.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.02.0-r0: fixed in 10.02.0-r0
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Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.02.0-r0: fixed in 10.02.0-r0
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript9.53.3~dfsg-7 ... 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u5 (6 versions)
  • every version up to 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u6: fixed in 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u6
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript10.0.0~dfsg-11, 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u1
  • every version up to 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u2: fixed in 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u2
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.02.0~dfsg-1: fixed in 10.02.0~dfsg-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ghostscript—
  • every version up to 10.02.0~dfsg-1: fixed in 10.02.0~dfsg-1
—

All Vendor Advisories

(4)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 86× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 318 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 218 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-12 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.4% · 93rd percentile
  2. 2026-11-12 09:27 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-12 09:27 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-12 09:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-11 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.4% · 93rd percentile
  6. 2026-11-11 09:18 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-11 09:18 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-11 09:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-11-10 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.4% · 93rd percentile
  10. 2026-11-10 09:08 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-10 09:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-11-09 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.4% · 93rd percentile
  13. 2026-11-09 08:59 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-11-09 08:59 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-11-09 08:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-11-08 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.4% · 93rd percentile
  17. 2026-11-08 08:51 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-11-08 08:51 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-11-08 08:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-11-07 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.4% · 93rd percentile
  21. 2026-11-07 08:41 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  22. 2026-11-07 08:41 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-11-07 08:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-11-06 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.4% · 93rd percentile
  25. 2026-11-06 08:32 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
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  1. 2026-11-06 08:32 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-11-06 08:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-11-05 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.4% · 93rd percentile
  4. 2026-11-05 08:23 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  5. 2026-11-05 08:23 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-11-05 08:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-11-04 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.4% · 93rd percentile
  8. 2026-11-04 16:25 UTCOSV refresh
  9. 2026-11-04 08:13 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  10. 2026-11-04 08:13 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-11-04 08:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-11-03 16:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.4% · 93rd percentile
  13. 2026-11-03 08:02 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-11-03 08:02 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-11-03 08:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-11-02 07:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  17. 2026-11-02 07:53 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-11-02 07:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-11-01 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  20. 2026-11-01 07:44 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  21. 2026-11-01 07:44 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-11-01 07:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-31 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  24. 2026-10-31 07:34 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  25. 2026-10-31 07:34 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-10-31 07:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  27. 2026-10-30 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  28. 2026-10-30 07:25 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  29. 2026-10-30 07:25 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-30 07:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  31. 2026-10-29 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  32. 2026-10-29 07:16 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  33. 2026-10-29 07:16 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-10-29 07:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  35. 2026-10-28 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  36. 2026-10-28 07:08 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  37. 2026-10-28 07:08 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-28 07:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  39. 2026-10-27 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  40. 2026-10-27 06:57 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  41. 2026-10-27 06:57 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-27 06:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  43. 2026-10-26 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  44. 2026-10-26 03:33 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-26 03:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  46. 2026-10-25 17:35 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  47. 2026-10-25 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  48. 2026-10-25 03:20 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  49. 2026-10-25 03:20 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-10-25 03:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  51. 2026-10-24 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  52. 2026-10-24 03:11 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  53. 2026-10-24 03:11 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-24 03:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  55. 2026-10-23 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  56. 2026-10-23 03:02 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  57. 2026-10-23 03:02 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-10-23 03:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  59. 2026-10-22 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  60. 2026-10-22 02:52 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  61. 2026-10-22 02:52 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-10-22 02:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  63. 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  64. 2026-10-21 02:42 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  65. 2026-10-21 02:42 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-10-21 02:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  67. 2026-10-20 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  68. 2026-10-20 02:33 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  69. 2026-10-20 02:33 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-10-20 02:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  71. 2026-10-19 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.0% · 93rd percentile
  72. 2026-10-19 02:02 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  73. 2026-10-19 02:02 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-10-19 02:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9p55-888j-qxrh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  75. 2026-10-18 07:51 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored

Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoCjostaub/ghostscript-CVE-2023-43115
    Published Sep 28, 2023

    A small write-up with examples to understand CVE-2023-43115

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2023-43115?
CVE-2023-43115 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 18, 2023. In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.2, gdevijs.c in GhostPDL can lead to remote code execution via crafted PostScript documents because they can switch to the IJS device, or change the IjsServer parameter, after SAFER has been activated. NOTE: it is a documented risk that the IJS server can be…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2023-43115 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2023-43115 was published on September 18, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2023-43115 actively exploited?
CVE-2023-43115 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (93rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2023-43115?
CVE-2023-43115 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2023-43115?
A fix for CVE-2023-43115 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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