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CVE-2017-8291

is CVE-2017-8291real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community ground truth.

High · CVSS 7.8EPSS 97.0%CISA KEVCWE-843

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

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 program, as exploited in the wild in April 2017.

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Community real-world severity: High (High 3) — CVSS base score 7.8

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    Same weaknessCWE-843.