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CVE-2019-3835

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-3835 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ghostscript versions prior to 9.27, affecting products from Artifex, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Red Hat. It allows a specially crafted PostScript file to bypass sandbox restrictions and access the file system due to the availability of the 'superexec' operator. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to high confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0264 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ghostscript-0:9.07-31.el7_6.10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ghostscript-0:9.25-2.el8_0.1
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ghostscript

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-3835Important

ghostscript: superexec operator is available (700585)

Mar 21, 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
packetstormsecurity.com / files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.html
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:0652
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:0971
Third Party Advisory
bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
Permissions RequiredVendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00021.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A43SRQAEHQCKSEMIBINHUNIGHTDCZD7F
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANBSCZABXQUEQWIKNWJ35IYX24M227EI
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVERLGEU3OV6RNZ2SIBXREWD3BF5H23N
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Apr/28
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Apr/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202004-03
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4432
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/107855
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry