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CVE-2017-8291
CWE-843
Critical
91.8
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
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.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 7.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 96.96%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since May 2022
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-843
- Published
- 27 Apr 2017
- Last modified 21 Apr 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time