What is CVE-2018-11645?

CVE-2018-11645 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2018-06-01.

How severe is CVE-2018-11645?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Artifex Ghostscript

CVE-2018-11645

psi/zfile.c in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.21rc1 permits the status command even if -dSAFER is used, which might allow remote attackers to determine the existence and size of arbitrary files, a similar issue to CVE-2016-7977.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2018-06-01 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.026 (84.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 84.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

usn.ubuntu.com/3768-1/ (vendor-advisory)
git.ghostscript.com/
bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336 (vendor-advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html (mailing-list)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2281 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-11645?: CVE-2018-11645 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2018-06-01.
How severe is CVE-2018-11645?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.