CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-14812

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-11-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-11-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-648, CWE-732

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• artifex ghostscript (>= 9.00 < 9.50) • fedoraproject fedora 31

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-648 Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References