{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2019-11-14T13:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ghostscript: -dSAFER escape in .charkeys (701841)",
    "id" : "1768911",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768911"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.3",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-648",
  "details" : [ "A flaw was found in all versions of ghostscript 9.x before 9.50, where the `.charkeys` procedure, where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. An attacker could abuse this flaw by creating a specially crafted PostScript file that could escalate privileges within the Ghostscript and access files outside of restricted areas or execute commands.", "A flaw was found in the `.charkeys` procedure, where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. An attacker could abuse this flaw by creating a specially crafted PostScript file that could escalate privileges within the Ghostscript and access files outside of restricted areas or execute commands." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Artifex Software for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Lukas Schauer and Paul Manfred as the original reporters.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2019-11-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:3888",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "ghostscript-0:9.25-2.el7_7.3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2019-11-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:3890",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "ghostscript-0:9.25-5.el8_1.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions",
    "release_date" : "2020-01-23T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:0222",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.0",
    "package" : "ghostscript-0:9.25-2.el8_0.4"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ghostscript",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:red_hat_3scale_amp:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ghostscript",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ghostscript",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14869\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14869" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2019-14869",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Please refer to the \"Mitigation\" section of CVE-2018-16509 : https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16509",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}