CVE-2019-14813
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · CWE-648
9.8CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)11%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14813 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14813Patch
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=885444fcbe10dc42787ecb76686c8ee4dd33bf33
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.htmlAdvisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2594Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00007.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/