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CVE-2019-3839

It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-61

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.

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.00445
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-648Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs
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Affected Products & Versions

6
artifex ghostscript< 9.27
debian linuxall versions
opensuse leapall versions
fedoraproject fedoraall versions
canonical ubuntu linuxall versions
redhat enterprise linuxall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

7.8
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · secalert@redhat.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD16 May 2019 · 07:29 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Advisories

7
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2019:2222-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2019:2223-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2019:2478-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2019:2460-1
usnUSN-3970-1
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References & Sources

10
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3839Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00023.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/
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