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EUVD-2026-50667

European Vulnerability Database identifier assigned by ENISA

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2026-10-02 06:07

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ENISA

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CVE-2019-6116 (GCVE-0-2019-6116)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-19 18:27 – Updated: 2024-08-04 20:16

Summary

In Artifex Ghostscript through 9.26, ephemeral or transient procedures can allow access to system operators, leading to remote code execution.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root Scorecard

References

22 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0229	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106700	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3866-1/	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46242/	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/151307/Ghost…	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4372	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/d…	x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/01/23/5	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700317	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/21/1	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/4	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152367/Slack…	x_refsource_MISC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-03	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO

Date Public

2019-01-23 00:00

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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