CVE-2017-8291

high

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446063

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1230

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/28/2

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41955/

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-8291

https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47d

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-17253

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036453

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98476

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-27

Updated: 2026-06-17

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.96968