CVE-2026-39919
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.
- CVSS scoredUpdate
CVE-2026-39919 scored CVSS 9.3
Basis: NIST National Vulnerability Database
- Disclosed
Ghostscript flaw lets hackers hijack servers via PDF uploads
Basis: Reporting by BleepingComputer
