Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting ghostscript-cups package, versions <0:9.07-20.el7_3.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
61.81% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GHOSTSCRIPTCUPS-5146576
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed26 Apr 2017

Introduced: 26 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-8291  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ghostscript-cups to version 0:9.07-20.el7_3.5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:1230.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ghostscript-cups package and not the ghostscript-cups package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1