CVE-2026-112177

high

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.

References

https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/485904772c5f0aa1140032746e5a0abfc40f4cef

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-104827

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555564

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-112177

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-20

Updated: 2026-10-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.3

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0026