CVE-2017-8291 vulnerability in Artifex and Other Products
Published on April 27, 2017
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Artifex Ghostscript Type Confusion Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Artifex Ghostscript allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 14, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2017-8291 can be exploited with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is an Object Type Confusion Vulnerability?
The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.
CVE-2017-8291 has been classified to as an Object Type Confusion vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
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