CVE-2017-8291

Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017.

• CWE-843
• CWE-843

• https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/28/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98476Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1230Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446063Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036453Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47dBroken Link
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41955/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/28/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3838Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98476Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1230Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446063Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036453Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04b37bbce174eed24edec7ad5b920eb93db4d47dBroken Link
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-06Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41955/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-8291US Government Resource

Published

Apr 27, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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