CVE-2026-112177CWE-648

CVE-2026-112177

High · published October 20, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00260 · 16.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-648 · Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs
Published
2026-10-20T12:16Z
References (3)
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-112177 · [email protected]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555564 · [email protected]https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/485904772c5f0aa1140032746e5a0abfc40f4cef · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 OCT 03:27Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 20 OCT 07:25Z
    Ghostscript: reintroduction of .charkeys -dsafer bypass in rhel 8
    cvelistv5
  • 20 OCT 07:25Z
    Ghostscript: reintroduction of .charkeys -dsafer bypass in rhel 8
    cvelistv5