CVE-2018-18073

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 12
Modified
Published: 15 Oct 2018, 16:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 11:01

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
25/100
CVSS Score
6.3 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.36% LOW
0% probability +0.08%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

15 Oct 2018, 16:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 11:01
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.36%• Percentile: 59%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-200•Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

    The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Systems

  • Unknown•Ghostscript

    ≤ 9.25

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    14.04 | 16.04 | 18.04 | 18.10

  • debian•debian_linux

    8.0 | 9.0

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_desktop

    7.0

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_server

    7.0

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_server_aus

    7.6

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_server_eus

    7.6

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_server_tus

    7.6

  • redhat•enterprise_linux_workstation

    7.0

References (9)