High 7.3Published Oct 20, 2026

CVE-2026-112177Ghostscript: reintroduction of .charkeys -dsafer bypass in rhel 8

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-22 05:50 UTC)

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EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.26%, higher than 17% of scored CVEs.

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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 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.

CVSS: 7.3 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness (CWE): CWE-648
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): 0.26% (percentile 17)
Assigned by: redhat
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Oct 20, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 20, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 redhat:enterprise_linux	10	CNA record

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-112177vdb-entry, x-refsource-redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555564issue-tracking, x-refsource-redhat
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/485904772c5f0aa1140032746e5a0abfc40f4cef

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