CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-14869
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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 versions of ghostscript 9.x before 9.50, where the `.charkeys` procedure, where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. An attacker could abuse this flaw by creating a specially crafted PostScript file that could escalate privileges within the Ghostscript and access files outside of restricted areas or execute commands.
Affected configurations
• artifex ghostscript (>= 9.00 < 9.50)
• fedoraproject fedora 29
• fedoraproject fedora 30
• fedoraproject fedora 31
• opensuse leap 15.0
• opensuse leap 15.1
Related
References
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN52486659/index.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00049.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00050.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/11/15/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0222 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701841 Permissions Required
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14869 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=485904772c5f git.ghostscript.com
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2Q4E3OTDAJRSUCOBTDQO7Y5UTE2FFMLF/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HC4REO73BEJOJAU7NHFHJECAUAYJUE3H/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IX55AEDERTDFEZAROKZW64MZRPLINEGI/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/27 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN52486659/index.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00049.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00050.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/11/15/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0222 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701841 Permissions Required
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14869 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=485904772c5f git.ghostscript.com
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2Q4E3OTDAJRSUCOBTDQO7Y5UTE2FFMLF/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HC4REO73BEJOJAU7NHFHJECAUAYJUE3H/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IX55AEDERTDFEZAROKZW64MZRPLINEGI/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/27 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory