CVE-2021-3781

critical

Description

A trivial sandbox (enabled with the `-dSAFER` option) escape flaw was found in the ghostscript interpreter by injecting a specially crafted pipe command. This flaw allows a specially crafted document to execute arbitrary commands on the system in the context of the ghostscript interpreter. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

References

https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/2021-threat-landscape-retrospective

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-11

https://ghostscript.com/CVE-2021-3781.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002271

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-02-16

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical