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CVE-2018-168637.3HighCWE-184

CVE-2018-16863: Artifex ghostscript vulnerability

Artifex · ghostscript

Vendor fix available · Affected: Artifex ghostscript · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

1.3%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
69th percentile
050100

Higher than 69% of scored CVEs

7.3HighCVSS 3.0
LowHigh

DescriptionCVE.org

It was found that RHSA-2018:2918 did not fully fix CVE-2018-16509. An attacker could possibly exploit another variant of the flaw and bypass the -dSAFER protection to, for example, execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This only affects ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Affected products1

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

  • Artifex · ghostscript9.07

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Exploitation
Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public check
No public nuclei template
Vendor
Artifex
Published
December 2018

CoverageNo articles yet

No CyberSIXT article names CVE-2018-16863 yet, so there is no coverage timeline, action brief or change log for it. Everything on this page comes from the public CVE record, CISA KEV, EPSS and the nuclei template index. Search the archive or see the CVEs in the news.

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