CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-3781

9.9 CRITICAL Published 2022-02-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-02-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-78

Description

A trivial sandbox (enabled with the `-dSAFER` option) escape flaw was found in the ghostscript interpreter by injecting a specially crafted pipe command. This flaw allows a specially crafted document to execute arbitrary commands on the system in the context of the ghostscript interpreter. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Affected configurations

• artifex ghostscript 9.50 • artifex ghostscript 9.52 • artifex ghostscript 9.53.3 • artifex ghostscript 9.54.0 • fedoraproject fedora 34

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness

References