CVE-2016-7977: Artifex Ghostscript

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ghostscript before 9.21 might allow remote attackers to bypass the SAFER mode protection mechanism and consequently read arbitrary files via the use of the .libfile operator in a crafted postscript document.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: up to and including 9.20

Published 2017-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.