CVE-2017-8291
HIGH7.8⚠ KEVEPSS 92.9%ghostscript - security update
Published: 4/27/2017Modified: 4/28/2026Added to CISA KEV: 5/24/2022
Description
Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/ghostscriptfrom 0, < 9.21-r2
- Debian/ghostscriptfrom 0, < 9.20~dfsg-3.1
- Debian/ghostscriptfrom 0, < 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |