CVE-2021-3781

9.9CRITICAL

Key Information

Vendor
Artifex
Status
Ghostscript
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 February 2022

Summary

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.

Affected Version(s)

ghostscript = ghostpdl 9.55.0

Refferences

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

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.9
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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