CVE-2026-112177
A flaw was found in Ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Risk score
- 52/100
- CVSS
- 7.3 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.3%
- Published
- 20 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- A flaw was found in Ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The correction for CVE-2019-14869 was omitted during the rebase from version 9.25 to 9.27, leaving privileged .forceput operations in the .charkeys procedure insufficiently protected. Processing a specially crafted PostScript file may allow an…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.3 high
- Remotely exploitable without logging in
References
Original description
A flaw was found in Ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The correction for CVE-2019-14869 was omitted during the rebase from version 9.25 to 9.27, leaving privileged .forceput operations in the .charkeys procedure insufficiently protected. Processing a specially crafted PostScript file may allow an attacker to bypass -dSAFER restrictions and access files outside the permitted paths or execute commands with the permissions of the Ghostscript process.
Last activity 20 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.