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CVE-2019-3839

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: May 16, 2019 at 06:31 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:35 AM UTC
7 products affected across 7 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraUbuntu Linux

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ghostscript· Artifex
95%
v < 9.27
Affected range stops below 9.27, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%
16.0418.0418.1019.04
Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%
8.09.0
Fedora· Fedora Projectrpm
95%
2930
Leap· openSUSEdrupal
95%
15.015.1
Enterprise Linux· Red Hatrpm
95%
5.06.0
Ghostscript· Ghostscript
60%
9.28

References (12)

x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4ec9ca74bed49f2a82acb4bf430eae0d8b3b75c9
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1017
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3839
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00023.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/

CVSS

7.8HIGH[email protected]
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-648NVD-CWE-noinfo

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