Information Exposure Affecting ghostscript package, versions [,9.21)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.6% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GHOSTSCRIPT-2370727
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-11645  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ghostscript to version 9.21 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.21rc1 permits the status command even if -dSAFER is used, which might allow remote attackers to determine the existence and size of arbitrary files, a similar issue to CVE-2016-7977.

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