CVE-2019-14817
A flaw was found in, ghostscript versions prior to 9.50, in the .pdfexectoken and other procedures where it did not properly secure its…
- 7.3HighCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A flaw was found in, ghostscript versions prior to 9.50, in the .pdfexectoken and other procedures 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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 24 days later
· 24 days later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Affected products
Artifex Software · ghostscript
- affected ghostscript versions prior to 9.28
References
References13
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14817 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=cd1b1cacadac2479e291efe611979bdc1b3bdb19 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-4518 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190909 [SECURITY] [DLA 1915-1] ghostscript security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 20190910 [SECURITY] [DSA 4518-1] ghostscript security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2594 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-0a9d525d71 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-953fc0f16d (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-ebd6c4f15a (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2222 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2223 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHBA-2019:2824 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-202004-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-5946 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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