CVE-2019-3839 Affecting ghostscript package, versions [,9.27)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GHOSTSCRIPT-2370680
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 May 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 May 2019

CVE-2019-3839  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ghostscript to version 9.27 or higher.

Overview

It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.

CVSS Scores

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