CVE-2026-112177

A flaw was found in Ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The correction for CVE-2019-14869 was omitted during the rebase from version 9.25 to 9.27, leaving privileged .forceput operations in the .charkeys procedure insufficiently protected. Processing a specially crafted PostScript file may allow an attacker to bypass -dSAFER restrictions and access files outside the permitted paths or execute commands with the permissions of the Ghostscript process.

CVSS v3 7.3 HIGH

7.3^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact LOW

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-112177
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555564
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/485904772c5f0aa1140032746e5a0abfc40f4cef

Configurations

No configuration.

History

20 Oct 2026, 08:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-10-20 08:16

Updated : 2026-10-20 15:03

NVD link : CVE-2026-112177

Mitre link : CVE-2026-112177

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-112177

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-648

Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs

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