CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-14812
High (7.8). EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in all ghostscript versions 9.x before 9.50, in the .setuserparams2 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
- 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-732, CWE-648
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- artifex:ghostscript
- fedoraproject:fedora
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=885444fcbe10dc42787ecb76686c8ee4dd33bf33
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-14812
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701444
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14812
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LBUC4DBBJTRFNCR3IODBV4IXB2C2HI3V/