{"id":"CVE-2026-112177","title":"Ghostscript: reintroduction of .charkeys -dsafer bypass in rhel 8","summary":"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 ins…","severity":"high","cvss":7.3,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L","cvssSource":"cna","cwe":["CWE-648"],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"ghostscript","affected":["ghostscript","ghostscript","ghostscript","ghostscript (all versions)","ghostscript"],"published":"2026-10-20","updated":"2026-10-20","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-20T07:25:16.741Z","source":"CVEORG","sourceUrl":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-112177","references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-112177"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555564","label":"RHBZ#2555564"},{"url":"https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/485904772c5f0aa1140032746e5a0abfc40f4cef"}],"tags":["cve.org"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-20T07:55:43.636Z","slug":"CVE-2026-112177","body":"## Overview\n\nA 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.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `ghostscript`\n- `ghostscript`\n- `ghostscript`\n- `ghostscript (all versions)`\n- `ghostscript`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.\n\n### Workarounds\n\nMitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":40,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":40.2,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}