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ghostscript: vulnerability history, versions and safety

ghostscript is a package in the OSS-Fuzz ecosystem. Vulert records 201 vulnerabilities for it across 108 releases, from Sep 2020 to Feb 2025. Each vulnerability names the versions it affects, the fixed version to move to, and a workaround where no fix has been published.

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201 vulnerabilities recorded H64 M95 U42
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11 with no fix published

No patched version yet — these are the ones to plan around.

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0 in the last 12 months

Nothing new recorded in the last year.

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0 malicious-package vulnerabilities

No published version shipped hostile code.

Vulert verdict on ghostscript i

Updated on 22 Oct 2026

Careful: 11 of the 201 vulnerabilities Vulert records for this package have no fix yet. Plan around those, or apply the workaround listed for each. The rest have a fixed version to move to.

Long-term outlook: usable, but needs attention 201 vulnerabilities on record across 4 years, none in the last year.

What to do: Plan around the 11 vulnerabilities with no published fix: each lists the affected range and any workaround that reduces exposure. No fix yet: Vulert alerts you the moment one is published. Monitor it with Vulert →

  • Vulnerabilities on record 201 over 4 years · 0 in the last year i
  • Latest disclosure 28 Feb 2025 i
  • Highest CVSS n/a i
  • With no published fix 11 i

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01 Versions

Which versions are affected

Every version Vulert holds for ghostscript, newest first, with the vulnerabilities that name it. A version with a count of zero has no recorded vulnerabilities; open a version to see the vulnerabilities it is exposed to.

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Version Vulert vulnerabilities Fix published Details
ken_20220210_baseline H2 M7 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.06.0 H2 M1 U2 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.06.0rc2 H2 M1 U2 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.06.0rc1 H2 M1 U2 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.05.1 H3 M1 U2 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.05.1rc1_test002 H3 M1 U2 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.05.1rc1_test001 H2 M1 U2 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.05.0 H3 M1 U2 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.05.0rc1 H3 M1 U2 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.05.0-test-base-001 H4 M2 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.04.0 H4 M6 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.04.0rc2_test001 H4 M6 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.04.0rc1 H4 M6 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.04.0rc1_test001 H4 M6 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.03.1 H4 M1 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.03.0 H4 M1 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.03.0rc1 H4 M1 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.03.0rc1_test003 H4 M1 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.03.0rc1_test002 H4 M1 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.03.0rc1_test H4 M1 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.03.0_test002 H4 M1 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.03.0_test001 H4 M1 U3 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.02.1 H5 M2 U1 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.02.0 H6 M2 U1 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.02.0rc2 H6 M2 U1 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.02.0rc1 H6 M2 U1 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.02.0-test-base-001 H9 M4 U1 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.01.2 H6 M3 U1 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.01.1 H9 M4 U1 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.01.1-gse-10174 H9 M4 U1 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.01.0 H9 M4 U1 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.01.0rc2 H9 M4 U1 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.01.0rc1 H9 M4 U1 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.0.0 H10 M6 U6 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.0.0rc2 H10 M6 U6 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.0.0rc1 H8 M10 U5 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.0.0_release_tests_002 H8 M10 U5 No Details →
ghostpdl-10.0.0_release_tests_001 H3 M1 U1 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.1 H1 M2 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.1_release_tests_001 H1 M2 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.0 H1 M2 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.0rc2 H2 M4 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.0rc2_release_tests_001 H2 M4 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.0rc1 H2 M9 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.0rc1_release_tests_002 H2 M9 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.0rc1_release_tests_001 H2 M10 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.0-test-base-6 H2 M6 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.0-test-base-5 H2 M7 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.0-test-base-4 H6 M17 U5 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.0-test-base-3 H10 M20 U6 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.0-test-base-2 H16 M20 U7 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.56.0-test-base-0 H2 M2 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.55.0 H2 M2 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.55.0rc1 H2 M2 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.55-test-base-0 H1 M1 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.54.0 H3 M1 No Details →
ghostpdl-9.54.0rc1_test H2 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.54.0-test-base-0 H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.53.3 H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.53.2 H3 M1 Yes Details →
rjj_9.53.2_test H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.53.1 H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.53.0 H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.53.0rc2 H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.53.0rc1 H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.53.0-test-base-0 H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.52.1 H3 M2 U1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.52 H3 M2 U1 Yes Details →
ghostscript-9.52 H3 M2 U1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.52-test-base-6 M4 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.52-test-base-5 M4 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.52-test-base-4 H3 M7 U1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.52-test-base-3 H3 M7 U1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.52-test-base-2 U1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.52-test-base-1 H3 M2 U1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.51 H3 M2 U1 Yes Details →
ghostscript-9.51 H3 M2 U1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.51rc3 H3 M2 U1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.51rc2 H3 M2 U1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.51rc2_test2 H3 M2 U1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.51rc2_test H3 M2 U1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.51rc1 H4 M2 U1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.50 H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostscript-9.50 H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.28rc4 H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.28rc3 H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.28rc2 H3 M1 Yes Details →
ghostpdl-9.28rc1 H2 M1 Yes Details →
gs9.28-temp-for-testing-tag H2 M1 Yes Details →
gpdf_alpha1 H3 M1 No Details →
rjw-test3 H4 M6 U3 No Details →
ken-test H2 M1 U2 No Details →
rjw-test H4 M1 No Details →
robin-test-base-0 H2 M7 No Details →
robin_test_ref H4 M2 U3 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_032 H1 M1 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_031 H1 M1 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_030 H1 M1 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_029 H1 M1 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_028 H1 M1 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_027 H1 M1 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_026 H1 M1 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_024 H1 M1 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_023 H1 M1 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_022 H1 M1 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_021 H1 M1 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_020 H1 M1 No Details →
gpdf_gs_text_filter_019 H1 M1 No Details →

Newest 108 of 108 versions on record. Severity counts are the vulnerabilities recorded against that exact release.

02 Disclosure history

How often vulnerabilities are recorded

  • 2020 16
  • 2021 52
  • 2022 93
  • 2023 13
  • 2024 22
  • 2025 5

Counted by the year Vulert recorded each vulnerability — the same date the table below shows as disclosed. 0 of the 201 were recorded in the last 12 months.

03 Vulnerabilities

Recorded vulnerabilities for ghostscript

The 5 most severe of 201 vulnerabilities recorded for this package

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Vulnerability Severity Fixed version ↓ Disclosed ↓
Heap-buffer-overflow in ghostscript: bytes_copy_rectangle_zero_padding N/A high db34d54064ae35adc78a499c49363a256f5145f6 18 Nov 2022
Heap-Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Ghostscript N/A high 4c4dcc85ce4f3c7fe53f72dd0098cd7906312dbd 28 Feb 2025
Heap-buffer-overflow in ghostscript: pdfi_dereference N/A medium 632230836e6a5aa347c037a66f478d752b62242a 14 Dec 2021
UNKNOWN READ vulnerability in ghostscript: pdfi_open_memory_stream_from_filtered_stream N/A medium 7fe54b1dbf221864b25ff55eccf1d624c07bb21d 14 Dec 2021
Memcpy-param-overlap in ghostscript: pdfi_set_input_stream N/A medium 2be8b436910cfc8b013a13df000c3c854cf3c5c5 14 Dec 2021

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Updated: 22/Oct/2026 · Vulnerabilities in our DB: 524173

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Questions

About ghostscript

Is ghostscript safe to use?

Vulert records 201 vulnerabilities for ghostscript in OSS-Fuzz: 0 critical, 64 high, 95 medium and 0 low, plus 42 not yet rated. 11 of them have no published fix yet, so those are the ones to avoid or mitigate.

How many vulnerabilities does ghostscript have?

201 vulnerabilities are recorded for ghostscript in the OSS-Fuzz ecosystem: 0 critical, 64 high, 95 medium and 0 low, plus 42 not yet rated. The ledger on this page lists the same counts next to the date of the most recent disclosure.

How often are new ghostscript vulnerabilities disclosed?

0 vulnerabilities were recorded for ghostscript in the last 12 months, and the oldest entry in this database dates to 07 Sep 2020. Recency matters more than a lifetime total: it shows how actively new issues are being disclosed for the package you are considering.

Which versions of ghostscript are affected?

Each vulnerability on this page lists the affected version range and the fixed version to move to. Open the vulnerability for the version you actually run — fixes are specific to a release line, not to the package as a whole.

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