May 24, 2022 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2017-8291 — Artifex Ghostscript
Artifex Ghostscript Type Confusion Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2022-05-24- Federal due date
2022-06-14- Vendor
- Artifex
- Product
- Ghostscript
- EPSS
- 99.8th percentile (score 0.929, as of
2026-06-08) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- —
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8291
CISA short description
Artifex Ghostscript allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.