VDB
GHSA-rh88-cwv2-gjxm
GHSA-rh88-cwv2-gjxm
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.800000190734863 HIGH
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 14, 2022
Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
7.800000190734863
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Timeline
- May 14, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (2 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (4 in total, the first dated here)
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8291 advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808 url
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47d url
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/28/2 url
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446063 url
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036453 url
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47d url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98476 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1230 advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06 advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-8291 advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41955 exploit
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838 advisory