[KEV] Vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript (CVE-2017-8291)
Summary
Vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript (CVE-2017-8291). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Listed in CISA KEV — actively exploited.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Artifex Ghostscript allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile.
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-8291 has been found in Artifex Ghostscript.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Note: CISA has officially confirmed this is actively exploited in the wild. Treat it with elevated urgency.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Artifex Ghostscript CVE-2017-8291" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2017-8291 (Artifex Ghostscript) — CWE-704
Listed in CISA KEV — actively exploited, treat as top priority.
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-704) exists in Artifex Ghostscript.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Artifex Ghostscript.
Severity: High. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Listed in CISA KEV — actively exploited in the wild, treat as top priority.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Ghostscript' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Ghostscript' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Ghostscriptを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Consider incident declaration escalate
Notify SOC / on-callCISA KEV登録済 = 実環境で悪用が観測されている。侵入の兆候があればインシデント対応宣言、無くてもパッチ適用までWAF強化を最優先で。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2017-8291 ghostscript Fixed in: 9.21-r2
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8291 ghostscript Fixed in: 9.20~dfsg-3.1
References
- advisory NVD