CVE-2004-1717

Exp

Multiple buffer overflows in the psscan function in ps.c for gv (ghostview) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Postscript file with a long (1) BoundingBox, (2) comment, (3) Orientation, (4) PageOrder, or (5) Pages value.

Published: 2004-08-16 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2004-1717 is rated High Exploit Risk (83.6/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 25.31%, 96th percentile). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +15.94% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2004-1717

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
400 exploit_db edb 2004-08-18 Exploit-DB ↗
390 exploit_db edb 2004-08-13 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2004-1717

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-01-30 9.38% 25.31% +15.94%
2 2025-03-30 10.78% 9.38% -1.41%
3 2025-03-29 — 10.78% —

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2004-1717

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2004-1717

OS Trackers for CVE-2004-1717

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2004-1717 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (gv), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2004-1717
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2004-1717

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2004-1717

  • Red Hat (2006-08-30T00:00:00)

    This CVE is a duplicate (rediscovery) of CVE-2002-0838

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2004-1717

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gv gv 2.7.6 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:2.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 2.7b1 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:2.7b1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 2.7b2 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:2.7b2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 2.7b3 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:2.7b3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 2.7b4 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:2.7b4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 2.7b5 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:2.7b5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 2.9.4 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:2.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 3.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 3.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 3.1.4 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:3.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 3.1.6 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:3.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 3.2.4 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:3.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 3.4.2 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:3.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 3.4.3 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:3.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 3.4.12 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:3.4.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 3.5.2 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:3.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 3.5.3 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:3.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gv gv 3.5.8 cpe:2.3:a:gv:gv:3.5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2004-1717

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