CWE Code: 264
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 7.5
CWE Name:  Permissions Privileges and Access Controls
Summary: a flaw was found in ghostscript, versions 9.x before 9.50, in the setsystemparams procedure where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dsafer` restrictions. a specially crafted postscript file could disable security protection and then have access to the file system, or execute arbitrary commands.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: NETWORK
Impact (C/I/A): PARTIAL/PARTIAL/PARTIAL
Published Date: 2019-09-06
Last Modified Date: 2019-09-10