CVE-2021-3781

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 16, 2022
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Sep 9, 2021

Description

A trivial sandbox (enabled with the `-dSAFER` option) escape flaw was found in the ghostscript interpreter by injecting a specially crafted pipe command. This flaw allows a specially crafted document to execute arbitrary commands on the system in the context of the ghostscript interpreter. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ghostscriptn/a	ghostpdl 9.55.0Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002271
https://ghostscript.com/CVE-2021-3781.html
GLSA-202211-11vendor-advisory

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