Medium severity · published May 23, 2019
CVE-2017-15652
Artifex Ghostscript 9.22 is affected by: Obtain Information
5.5
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Artifex Ghostscript 9.22 is affected by: Obtain Information. The impact is: obtain sensitive information. The component is: affected source code file, affected function, affected executable, affected libga (imagemagick used that). The attack vector is: Someone must open a postscript file though ghostscript. Because of imagemagick also use libga, so it was affected as well.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 70% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GH
Ghostscript · Artifex
9.22 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15652
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15652
git.ghostscript.com
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2fc463d0e
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108463
Exploit
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698676
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