CVE-2021-3781

highpriority · attend · 69EPSS 0.839 · 100 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

83.9% (100th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

12 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A trivial sandbox (enabled with the `-dSAFER` option) escape flaw was found in the ghostscript interpreter by injecting a specially crafted pipe command. This flaw allows a specially crafted document to execute arbitrary commands on the system in the context of the ghostscript interpreter. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 9.3–9.9

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v3.19.9criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.1 · impact 6

v3.19.9criticalAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.19.9criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-78USprimaryCWE-20USCWE-78US

affected products (12)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a ghostscript≤ ghostpdl 9.55.0enisa_euvdEU
Artifex Software Inc. Ghostscript≤ 9.50fstec_bduRU
Artifex Software Inc. Ghostscript≤ 9.54.0fstec_bduRU
Artifex Software Inc. Ghostscript≤ 9.53.3fstec_bduRU
Artifex Software Inc. Ghostscript≤ 9.52fstec_bduRU
АО «НППКТ» ОСОН ОСнова Оnyx≤ 2.6fstec_bduRU
ООО «Ред Софт» РЕД ОС≤ 7.3fstec_bduRU
artifex ghostscript= 9.50nvdUScpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
artifex ghostscript= 9.52nvdUScpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
artifex ghostscript= 9.53.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
artifex ghostscript= 9.54.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora= 34nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-02-16modified 2026-06-17

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