CVE-2021-3781
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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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
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3781
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3781.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202109-3
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 9.54.0-3 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 9.53.3~dfsg-8 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 9.53.3~dfsg-8 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 9.53.3~dfsg-8 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 9.53.3~dfsg-8 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.