CVE Database · CVE-2017-8291
CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
96.14%
Published
Apr 26, 2017
Modified
Apr 21, 2026
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Added: 2022-05-24 · Due: 2022-06-14
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Public PoC / Exploit (6)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
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.
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWeaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (20)
References (20)