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CVE-2021-3781

CRITICAL

9.9

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1710%

EPSS Percentile14.65th

PublishedFeb 16, 2022

Last ModifiedNov 21, 2024

Vulnerability Description

A trivial sandbox (enabled with the `-dSAFER` option) escape flaw was found in the ghostscript interpreter by injecting a specially crafted pipe command. This flaw allows a specially crafted document to execute arbitrary commands on the system in the context of the ghostscript interpreter. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Artifex

Ghostscript

= 9.50

📦

Artifex

Ghostscript

= 9.52

📦

Artifex

Ghostscript

= 9.53.3

📦

Artifex

Ghostscript

= 9.54.0

💻

Fedoraproject

Fedora

= 34

References & Advisories

🔗 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002271

🔗 https://ghostscript.com/CVE-2021-3781.html

🔗 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-11

🔗 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002271

🔗 https://ghostscript.com/CVE-2021-3781.html

🔗 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-11

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