Access Restriction Bypass Affecting ghostscript package, versions [,9.24)(9.24,9.26)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
95.83% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GHOSTSCRIPT-2370738
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16509  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ghostscript to version 9.24, 9.26 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.

CVSS Scores

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