CVE-2019-14813 Information

Description

A flaw was found in ghostscript versions 9.x before 9.50 in the setsystemparams procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls enabling scripts to bypass -dSAFER restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system or execute arbitrary commands.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=885444fcbe10dc42787ecb76686c8ee4dd33bf33 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2594 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14813 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00007.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LBUC4DBBJTRFNCR3IODBV4IXB2C2HI3V/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/ https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/15 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03 https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4518

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8