CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16863

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-12-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-12-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-184, CWE-78

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.

Affected configurations

• artifex ghostscript 9.07 • 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

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-184 Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness

References