CVE-2026-39919

critical

Description

Ghostscript before 10.08.0 contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the JPEG 2000 output adapter (base/sjpx_openjpeg.c) that allows attackers to cause memory corruption by supplying a crafted PDF containing a JPEG 2000 image with mismatched component subsampling factors. When image components declare different subsampling values, the non-samescale sub-byte-depth output path allocates a row buffer sized for packed output but writes a full byte per output column regardless of bit depth, overflowing the allocation and corrupting internal chunk-allocator metadata to achieve code execution.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghostscript-heap-buffer-overflow-via-jpeg-2000-output-adapter

https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/0a8bf88e39db07b0751a58d6ec1cf992073e4dc1

https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs10080

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709666

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-15

Updated: 2026-09-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00486