Artifex vulnerabilities1 known to be exploited.

Vendor1 known exploited
The short answer

Artifex has 249 published vulnerabilities across 11 products in our catalogue. 1 of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited, so criminals are using them now. The most affected product is Ghostscript, with 126. If you run Artifex software, patch the exploited flaws first.

See the exploited flaws

The most recent Artifex flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2017-8291, on 24 May 2022. We keep watching the known-exploited list.

Products

Which Artifex products have the most vulnerabilities?

Ghostscript leads with 126 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

Known exploited

Which Artifex vulnerabilities are being exploited?

1 flaw is on the government list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. These are the ones criminals are using now, so they go first, whatever their severity score says.

  1. 7.8
    CVE-2017-8291HighKnown exploited
    Artifex Ghostscript Type Confusion Vulnerability

    Artifex Ghostscript allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile.

    Chance of use97%Known exploited since24 May 2022
Exploit likelihood

Which Artifex flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 97%
    CVE-2017-8291HighKnown exploited

    Artifex Ghostscript through 2017-04-26 allows -dSAFER bypass and remote command execution via .rsdparams type confusion with a "/OutputFile (%pipe%" substring in a crafted .eps document that is an input to the gs...

    CVSS7.8Published27 Apr 2017
  2. 92%

    An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24.

    CVSS7.8Published5 Sep 2018
  3. 84%

    A trivial sandbox (enabled with the `-dSAFER` option) escape flaw was found in the ghostscript interpreter by injecting a specially crafted pipe command.

    CVSS9.9Published16 Feb 2022
  4. 50%

    A flaw was found in mupdf 1.18.0. Double free of object during linearization may lead to memory corruption and other potential consequences.

    CVSS5.5Published23 Feb 2021
  5. 42%

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

    CVSS7.8Published21 Mar 2019
  6. 28%

    Artifex Ghostscript before 10.03.1 allows memory corruption, and SAFER sandbox bypass, via format string injection with a uniprint device.

    CVSS6.3Published3 Jul 2024
  7. 23%

    The PS Interpreter in Ghostscript 9.18 and 9.20 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted userparams.

    CVSS8.8Published7 Aug 2017
  8. 16%

    Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving the 1Policy operator.

    CVSS8.6Published19 Oct 2018
  9. 15%

    An issue was discovered in Artifex MuPDF before 1912de5f08e90af1d9d0a9791f58ba3afdb9d465.

    CVSS7.5Published15 Feb 2017
  10. 15%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the xps_parse_color function in xps/xps-common.c in MuPDF 1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of entries in the ContextColor value of...

    CVSS7.5Published3 Mar 2014
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Our catalogue lists 249 published vulnerabilities across 11 products and 654 versions from Artifex. The most recent Artifex flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2017-8291, on 24 May 2022.

1 Artifex vulnerability is on the list of flaws known to be exploited. The most recently added is CVE-2017-8291. The full list is on this page.

Ghostscript, with 126 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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