CVE record · CVE-2026-101258

Ghostscript: ghostscript: -dsafer sandbox bypass via type 5 shading oob write and procedure-stream use-after-free

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0018 · 7th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 6 Oct 2026, 20:02 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: ghostscript https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:10.02.1-16.el10_2.3 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: ghostscript https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:9.27-19.el8_10 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: ghostscript https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:9.54.0-19.el9_8.3 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: ghostscript https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: ghostscript-fonts https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: ghostscript https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: ghostscript-chinese https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: ghostscript-fonts https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-101258
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-787
Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Memory corruption
Published: 6 Oct 2026
Updated: 4 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

6 Oct 2026, 20:02 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
6 Oct 2026, 21:17 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83551 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83552 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83553 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-101258 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2542396 issue-trackingredhat
github.com/v12-security/pocs/tree/main/ghostscript

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.