A flaw was found in Ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
A flaw was found in Ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The correction for CVE-2019-14869 was omitted during the rebase from version 9.25 to 9.27, leaving privileged .forceput operations in the .charkeys procedure insufficiently protected. Processing a specially crafted PostScript file may allow an attacker to bypass -dSAFER restrictions and access files outside the permitted paths or execute commands with the permissions of the Ghostscript process.
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- Red Hat
- Product
- red hat
- CVSS
- 7.3
- Exposure class
- Operating system
Why it ranks 15 (Routine)
- CVSS 7.3 high
- Product class: operating system
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.