Privileged Operator Access Vulnerability in Ghostscript Versions Before 9.27

Privileged Operator Access Vulnerability in Ghostscript Versions Before 9.27

CVE-2019-3839 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

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