Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2017-8291

TLP:CLEAR

Artifex Ghostscript Type Confusion Vulnerability

Artifex Ghostscript allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile.

Facts

  • Vendor: Artifex
  • Product: Ghostscript
  • CVSS: 7.8
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 97 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 24 May 2022
  • First known exploitation: 24 May 2022
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 14 June 2022
  • Weakness: CWE-704
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 24 May 2022

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD