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CVE-2017-8291
Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a…
High7.8Known exploitedEPSS 97.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Artifex Ghostscript Type Confusion Vulnerability.
- Added
- 24 May 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 14 Jun 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 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)
- 97.0% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (11)
- DSA-3838 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036453 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:1230 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 98476 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 41955 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/28/2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- GLSA-201708-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446063 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-8291 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
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)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (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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