Vulnerability in Ghostscript software
Vulnerability in Ghostscript software
| CVE ID | CVE-2026-19547 |
| Publication date | 29 September 2026 |
| Vendor | Artifex Software Inc. |
| Product | Ghostscript |
| Vulnerable versions | All before 10.08.0 |
| Vulnerability type (CWE) | Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426) |
| Report source | Report to CERT Polska |
Description
CERT Polska has received a report about vulnerability in Ghostscript software and participated in coordination of its disclosure.
The vulnerability CVE-2026-19547: Ghostscript for Windows is vulnerable to local privilege escalation through PostScript resource file hijacking. Due to the application searching for PostScript resource files in predictable paths under C:\\gs\\ that do not exist by default on Windows installations, combined with Windows default ACLs allowing any authenticated user to create directories at the root of C:\\, an attacker who is an authenticated local user can create the expected directory structure and plant a malicious PostScript file. When any user or service subsequently runs Ghostscript, the planted file is automatically loaded and executed with the full privileges of the Ghostscript process. This results in full compromise of Ghostscript process context, as well as running arbitrary code on the machine with Ghostscript process privileges.
This issue was fixed in version 10.08.0.
Credits
We thank Julian Horoszkiewicz from Atos Threat Research Center for the responsible vulnerability report.
More about the coordinated vulnerability disclosure process at CERT Polska can be found at https://cert.pl/en/cvd/.