CVE-2019-14811: Artifex Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in, ghostscript versions prior to 9.50, in the .pdf_hook_DSC_Creator procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. A specially crafted PostScript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: before 9.50 (fixed in 9.50)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only; version 31 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 3.11 only; version 4.1 only

Published 2019-09-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.