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Alpine: multiple ghostscript packages: security update to 9.21-r2

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423888

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2017-8291)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-8291

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423888

Version: Revision 1.20

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

Percentile: 99.81

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-8291

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/26/2017

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/14/2022

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Ghostscript Type Confusion Arbitrary Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8291

BID: 98476

IAVB: 2023-B-0097-S