CVE-2019-14817 describes a critical vulnerability in Ghostscript versions prior to 9.50, affecting products from Artifex, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Red Hat. This flaw allows specially crafted PostScript files to bypass security restrictions like -dSAFER, enabling unauthorized file system access or arbitrary command execution. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it poses a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction for exploitation. While no public exploits (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) or active exploitation have been identified, and community discussion is minimal, the potential for severe compromise warrants immediate patching.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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