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CVE-2019-10216

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-10216 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ghostscript versions prior to 9.50, also affecting Artifex and Red Hat products. This flaw allows an attacker to bypass security restrictions by crafting a malicious PostScript file, leading to privilege escalation and unauthorized file access. While the CVSS score is 7.8 (High), indicating significant potential impact, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.50CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:3scale_api_management:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.3HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0230 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: 3scale API Management 2.6 on RHEL 7Fixed in: 3scale-amp26/3scale-operator:1.9-7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: 3scale API Management 2.6 on RHEL 7Fixed in: 3scale-amp26/apicast-gateway:1.15-9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: 3scale API Management 2.6 on RHEL 7Fixed in: 3scale-amp26/backend:1.9-24
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: 3scale API Management 2.6 on RHEL 7Fixed in: 3scale-amp26/operator:1.9-7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: 3scale API Management 2.6 on RHEL 7Fixed in: 3scale-amp26/toolbox:1.2-5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: 3scale API Management 2.6 on RHEL 7Fixed in: 3scale-amp26/zync:1.9-28
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ghostscript-0:9.25-2.el7_7.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ghostscript-0:9.25-2.el8_0.2
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-10216Important

ghostscript: -dSAFER escape via .buildfont1 (701394)

Aug 12, 2019

References

git.ghostscript.com
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202004-03
Third Party Advisory