CVE-2019-3835

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3835
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-3835.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-3835
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-03-25T19:29:01.680Z
Modified
2026-05-28T04:05:10.174085124Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

It was found that the superexec operator was available in the internal dictionary in ghostscript before 9.27. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "28"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "29"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "30"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "15.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "15.1"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.3"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:ansible_tower",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.6"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.6"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.6"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/artifexsoftware/ghostpdl-downloads
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
799cf865a224b60a7de50d2909abf7f66e9e34e3
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "9.27"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

9.*
9.21rc1
9.27rc1
gs9.*
gs9.26rc1
Other
gs918
gs919
gs920
gs920rc1
gs921
gs922
gs922rc1
gs922rc2
gs923
gs923rc1
gs924
gs924rc2
gs925
gs925rc1
gs926

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-3835.json"