CVE-2019-3839: The ghostscript Project ghostscript

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
The ghostscript Project	ghostscript	affected 9.28

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.3	High	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.017, the 77th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 16 May 2019. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0971 vendor-advisoryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3839 confirm
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1017 vendor-advisoryredhat
usn.ubuntu.com/3970-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4442 vendor-advisorydebian
seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/23 mailing-listbugtraq
git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=4ec9ca74bed49f2a82acb4bf430eae0d8b3b75c9 confirm
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00023.html mailing-listmlist
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZP34D27RKYV2POJ3NJLSVCHUA5V5C45A/ vendor-advisoryfedora
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AATIHU32MYKUOXQDJQU4X4DDVL7NAY3/ vendor-advisoryfedora
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00090.html vendor-advisorysuse
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00088.html vendor-advisorysuse

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.