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CVE-2017-8291

CVE-2017-8291HIGH

n/a n/a — Artifex Ghostscript

  AV  AC  PR  UI  S  C  I  A   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   L   L   N   R  U  H  H  H    7.8   .9697   99.9   YES

AFFECTED
  Product  Versions  Fixed
  n/a      n/a –     —

TIMELINE
  Apr 26  Reserved by mitre
  Apr 27  Published (CNA: mitre)
  May 24  Added to CISA KEV, remediation due 2022-06-14

CWE-843 · CNA: mitre · CVSS v3.1 · 11 references · KEV due June 14, 2022

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.

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
Date	Event	Detail
April 26, 2017	Reserved	Reserved by mitre
April 27, 2017	Published	Published (CNA: mitre)
May 24, 2022	KEV ADDED	Added to CISA KEV, remediation due 2022-06-14

Affected

Affected products and packages — 1 row
Vendor	Product / Package	Ecosystem	Version introduced	Fixed
n/a	n/a	—	n/a	—

Weaknesses

CWE-843

References (11)

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/28/2 [x_refsource_MISC]
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838 [vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98476 [vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1230 [vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT]
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808 [x_refsource_MISC]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446063 [x_refsource_MISC]
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036453 [x_refsource_MISC]
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47d [x_refsource_CONFIRM]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06 [vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO]
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-8291 [government-resource]
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41955/ [exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB]

Authoritative record: CVE-2017-8291 at cve.org

Weaknesses: CWE-843

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