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.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-932-1 ghostscript security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3838-1 ghostscript security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3272-1 Ghostscript vulnerabilities
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{'dateAdded': '2022-05-24'}

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-21T23:55:41.773Z

Reserved: 2017-04-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-8291

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:21.679Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-04-27T01:59:02.057

Modified: 2025-10-22T00:16:11.393

Link: CVE-2017-8291

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-04-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-8291 - Bugzilla

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