CVE-2017-8291
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Apr 27, 2017
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Reserved
- Apr 26, 2017
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- DSA-3838vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036453
- RHSA-2017:1230vendor-advisory
- 98476vdb-entry
- 41955exploit
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/28/2
- GLSA-201708-06vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446063
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47d
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-8291government-resource
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