CVE-2019-3838: Artifex Ghostscript

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method in ghostscript before 9.27. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: before 9.27 (fixed in 9.27)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 28 only; version 29 only; version 30 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 42.3 only
• Red Hat Ansible Tower: version 3.3 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2019-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.