A flaw was found in Ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
CVE-2026-112177
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.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 7.3 (v3.1)
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 20 October 2026
- Last updated
- 2 November 2026
- Affected
- Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Assigner
- redhat
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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