CVE-2019-3839

HIGH

Ghostscript <9.27 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (12)

Core 12
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3839
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1017
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3970-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4442
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/23
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00023.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0176
EPSS Percentile 75.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-648
Status published
Products (13)
artifex/ghostscript < 9.27
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 29
fedoraproject/fedora 30
opensuse/leap 15.0
... and 3 more
Published May 16, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026