VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7976

high
Published 2017-08-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

The PS Interpreter in Ghostscript 9.18 and 9.20 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted userparams.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
100%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

exploit_unix/fileformat/imagemagick_delegate rank 600
ImageMagick Delegate Arbitrary Command Execution
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 9.19~dfsg-3.1
sid Fixed 9.19~dfsg-3.1
forky Fixed 9.19~dfsg-3.1
bullseye Fixed 9.19~dfsg-3.1
bookworm Fixed 9.19~dfsg-3.1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
artifexghostscript9.18
artifexghostscript9.20

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.