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CVE-2018-16863

Published: Dec 3, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

7.3

HIGH

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

Artifex

ghostscript

affected
9.07

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-184

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

Low

References

RHSA-2018:3761
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT

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