VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-3839

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.71%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-05-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. 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. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-648: Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs

Primary references