7.8

CVE-2018-17183: artifex ghostscript

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-17183DEBIAN-CVE-2018-17183
Published 19-09-2018Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-17183 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in artifex ghostscript. EPSS estimates a 1.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 7.8, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.83%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 12 · Related 9
DLA-1527-1DSA-4294-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10783-1RHSA-2018:3834SUSE-SU-2018:2975-1SUSE-SU-2018:2975-2

Timeline

  1. 19-09-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25 allowed a user-writable error exception table, which could be used by remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace error handlers to inject code.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.83%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

79%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 1.83% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Redhat6 products
Debian2 products
Artifex1 product
Canonical1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • ghostscript< 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | < 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 | < 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

5 vendors · 11 products

References

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