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CVE-2019-14813
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 11.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2019-09-06 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-648
Description
A flaw was found in ghostscript, versions 9.x before 9.50, in the setsystemparams procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands.
Affected products
- Artifex Ghostscript: from 9.00 through 9.50
- Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30, 31
- openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 8.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.7
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.7
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.7
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 3.11, 4.1
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=885444fcbe10dc42787ecb76686c8ee4dd33bf33
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2594
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14813
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LBUC4DBBJTRFNCR3IODBV4IXB2C2HI3V/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/15
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03
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