CVE-2019-3839: Artifex Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was found that in ghostscript some privileged operators remained accessible from various places after the CVE-2019-6116 fix. 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. Ghostscript versions before 9.27 are vulnerable.

Affected products

• Artifex Ghostscript: before 9.27 (fixed in 9.27)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only; version 19.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2019-05-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.