CVE-2017-15652 Information disclosure in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published 23 May 2019 Updated 5 Aug 2024

Attackers can obtain sensitive information by tricking users into opening malicious PostScript files processed by Ghostscript or ImageMagick.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2017-15652?

CVE-2017-15652 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, published on 23 May 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Artifex Ghostscript 9.22 is affected by: Obtain Information. The impact is: obtain sensitive information. The component is: affected source code file, affected function, affected executable, affected libga (imagemagick used that). The attack vector is: Someone must open a postscript file though ghostscript. Because of imagemagick also use libga, so it was affected as well.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-15652?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Artifex Ghostscript.

How do I fix CVE-2017-15652?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2017-15652 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-15652 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Artifex Ghostscript vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15652, GHSA-x735-fr7j-4w5v.