CVE-2021-3781

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3781

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3781.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202109-3

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed9.54.0-3
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed9.53.3~dfsg-8
debian debianbullseyefixed9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed9.53.3~dfsg-8
debian debiansidfixed9.53.3~dfsg-8
debian debiantrixiefixed9.53.3~dfsg-8

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.