# CVE-2026-112177: Ghostscript: reintroduction of .charkeys -dsafer bypass in rhel 8

- Severity: CVSS 7.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-20 · Updated: 2026-10-20

## Affected

- ghostscript: version range not reported
- ghostscript: version range not reported
- ghostscript: version range not reported
- ghostscript: version range not reported
- ghostscript: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in Ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The correction for CVE-2019-14869 was omitted during the rebase from version 9.25 to 9.27, leaving privileged .forceput operations in the .charkeys procedure insufficiently protected. Processing a specially crafted PostScript file may allow an attacker to bypass -dSAFER restrictions and access files outside the permitted paths or execute commands with the permissions of the Ghostscript process.

## What to do

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-112177
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555564
- https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/485904772c5f0aa1140032746e5a0abfc40f4cef

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