CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-14811
High (7.8). EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in, ghostscript versions prior to 9.50, in the .pdf_hook_DSC_Creator procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-863, CWE-648
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- artifex:ghostscript
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- opensuse:leap
- redhat:openshift_container_platform
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2594
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14811