artifex ghostscript CVE-2019-3835 vulnerability in Artifex and Other Products
Published on March 25, 2019

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It was found that the superexec operator was available in the internal dictionary in ghostscript before 9.27. 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.

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Weakness Type

Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs

The application does not conform to the API requirements for a function call that requires extra privileges. This could allow attackers to gain privileges by causing the function to be called incorrectly.


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Affected Versions

The ghostscript Project ghostscript Version 9.27 is affected by CVE-2019-3835

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.56%
Percentile
67.94%

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