CVE-2019-14869

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

3.09% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 87.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2019-11-15 11:55Z6 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 00:26Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2019-08-10

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 7.3)

CNA CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses

• CWE-648Incorrect Use of Privileged APIsBase
• CWE-732Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical ResourceClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

22b6503eb3dd8758698803eaa0be937637972126d2dcc46dc06d1713586054ff

• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14869x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20191115 CVE-2019-14869 ghostscript: -dSAFER escape in .charkeyshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/11/15/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• git.ghostscript.comhttps://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=485904772c5fx_refsource_CONFIRM
• bugs.ghostscript.comhttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701841x_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-17f42f585ahttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IX55AEDERTDFEZAROKZW64MZRPLINEGI/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• seclists.org20191118 [SECURITY] [DSA 4569-1] ghostscript security updatehttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/27mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-6cdb10aa59https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HC4REO73BEJOJAU7NHFHJECAUAYJUE3H/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:2534http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00049.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:2535http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00050.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-7debdd1807https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2Q4E3OTDAJRSUCOBTDQO7Y5UTE2FFMLF/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0222https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0222vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• jvn.jpJVN#52486659http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN52486659/index.htmlthird-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVN