Security Advisory

CVE-2019-14817

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in, ghostscript versions prior to 9.50, in the .pdfexectoken and other procedures 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.
Published Date September 3, 2019
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory