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CVE-2019-14811

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-14811 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ghostscript versions prior to 9.50, affecting products like Artifex, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Red Hat. This flaw allows a specially crafted PostScript file to bypass security restrictions, granting an attacker access to the file system or enabling arbitrary command execution. With a CVSS score of 7.8, it requires user interaction (e.g., opening a malicious file) but could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0375 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 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_7.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ghostscript-0:9.25-2.el8_0.3
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-14811Important

ghostscript: Safer mode bypass by .forceput exposure in .pdf_hook_DSC_Creator (701445)

Aug 28, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHBA-2019:2824
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2594
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingMitigationPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00007.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LBUC4DBBJTRFNCR3IODBV4IXB2C2HI3V
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Sep/15
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202004-03
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4518
Third Party Advisory