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CVE-2018-16863

CVE-2018-16863 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.300000190734863 HIGH

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.

EPSS 1.25% · 66.5th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.0
7.300000190734863
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score
1.25%
66.5th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
artifexghostscript9.07
Artifexghostscript9.07
redhatenterprise_linux_server_eus7.6
redhatenterprise_linux_workstation7.0
redhatenterprise_linux_server_tus7.6
redhatenterprise_linux_server7.0
redhatenterprise_linux_desktop7.0
redhatenterprise_linux_server_aus7.6

Timeline

  • Dec 3, 2018 CVE Published
  • Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
  • May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Nov 7, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score

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