{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14869 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2019-14869 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, published on 15 Nov 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2019-14869 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2019-14869 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, published on 15 Nov 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14869 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Artifex Ghostscript. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14869/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14869/index.md)","id":"CVE-2019-14869","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14869/index.md","name":"CVE-2019-14869","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2019-14869","DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14869","DLA-1992-1","DSA-4569-1","GHSA-c87p-jj8p-c38g","MGASA-2019-0336","RHSA-2019:3888","RHSA-2019:3890","RHSA-2020:0222","SUSE-SU-2019:2981-1","SUSE-SU-2019:2983-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14869","USN-4193-1","openSUSE-SU-2019:2534-1","openSUSE-SU-2019:2535-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ghostscript library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can bypass Ghostscript's -dSAFER restrictions via crafted PostScript files to execute commands or access restricted files.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"security_feature_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"ghostscript","vendor":"artifex"},{"product":"fedora","vendor":"fedoraproject"},{"product":"leap","vendor":"opensuse"}],"cvss":{"score":7.3,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-732","name":"Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource"},{"id":"CWE-648","name":"Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs"}],"description":"A flaw was found in all versions of ghostscript 9.x before 9.50, where the `.charkeys` procedure, where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. 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