CVE-2019-3835

MEDIUM

Ghostscript <9.27 - Code Injection

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (16)

[Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3835

[Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory] https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700585

[Third Party Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0652

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVERLGEU3OV6RNZ2SIBXREWD3BF5H23N/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ANBSCZABXQUEQWIKNWJ35IYX24M227EI/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ghostscript-Updates.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A43SRQAEHQCKSEMIBINHUNIGHTDCZD7F/

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4432

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/28

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107855

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00021.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0164

EPSS Percentile 82.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-648 CWE-862

Status published

Products (15)

artifex/ghostscript < 9.27

debian/debian_linux 8.0

debian/debian_linux 9.0

fedoraproject/fedora 28

fedoraproject/fedora 29

fedoraproject/fedora 30

opensuse/leap 15.0

opensuse/leap 15.1

redhat/ansible_tower 3.3

redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0

... and 5 more

Published Mar 25, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026