CVE-2019-14812: Artifex Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in all ghostscript versions 9.x before 9.50, in the .setuserparams2 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: from 9.00, before 9.50 (fixed in 9.50)
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 31 only

Published 2019-11-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.