Vulnerability record

CVE-2026-39919

Severity: CriticalExploitation: No known exploitation

Patch status

No official fix confirmed yet

Until a fix ships, follow the vendor's mitigations, limit exposure of affected systems, and watch this record for a patch.

Description

Ghostscript before 10.08.0 contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the JPEG 2000 output adapter (base/sjpx_openjpeg.c) that allows attackers to cause memory corruption by supplying a crafted PDF containing a JPEG 2000 image with mismatched component subsampling factors. When image components declare different subsampling values, the non-samescale sub-byte-depth output path allocates a row buffer sized for packed output but writes a full byte per output column regardless of bit depth, overflowing the allocation and corrupting internal chunk-allocator metadata to achieve code execution.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database. Official vulnerability data, reproduced as published.

Intelligence timeline

Developments from the last 30 days, newest first.

  1. CVSS scoredUpdate

    CVE-2026-39919 scored CVSS 9.3

    Basis: NIST National Vulnerability Database

  2. Disclosed

    Ghostscript flaw lets hackers hijack servers via PDF uploads

    Basis: Reporting by BleepingComputer

Coverage

References

  • bugs.ghostscript.com https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709666
  • github.com https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs10080
  • github.com https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/0a8bf88e39db07b0751a58d6ec1cf992073e4dc1
  • vulncheck.com https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghostscript-heap-buffer-overflow-via-jpeg-2000-output-adapter