Access Restriction Bypass Affecting ghostscript package, versions [,9.27)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GHOSTSCRIPT-2370725
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-3835  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-862  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ghostscript to version 9.27 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. It was found that the superexec operator was available in the internal dictionary in ghostscript before 9.27. 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.

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