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title: "CVE-2026-112177: Ghostscript - Broken Access Control"
description: "Ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 contains a broken access control vulnerability caused by insufficient protection of privileged .forceput operations in the .charkeys procedure, letting attackers bypass -dSAFER restrictions to access files or execute commands with Ghostscript process permissions, exploit requires processing a specially crafted PostScript file."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-112177/
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# CVE-2026-112177 Ghostscript - Broken Access Control

Ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 contains a broken access control vulnerability caused by insufficient protection of privileged .forceput operations in the .charkeys procedure, letting attackers bypass -dSAFER restrictions to access files or execute commands with Ghostscript process permissions, exploit requires processing a specially crafted PostScript file.

CVSS base score 7.3 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Not required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112177)

## Details

Type

Broken Access Control

Impact

File System Read, Remote Code Execution

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Published

20 October 2026

Updated

20 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-648](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/648.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest Ghostscript version including the fix for CVE-2019-14869.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112177](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112177)
- [https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-112177](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-112177)
- [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show\_bug.cgi?id=2555564](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2555564)
- [https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/485904772c5f0aa1140032746e5a0abfc40f4cef](https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/485904772c5f0aa1140032746e5a0abfc40f4cef)

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