What is CVE-2018-16863?

CVE-2018-16863 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, classified under Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2018-12-03.

How severe is CVE-2018-16863?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-16863 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript

CVE-2018-16863

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 P…

EPSS: 0.001 (24.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.3 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Artifex Ghostscript — versions 9.07

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-184 — Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs

Public proof-of-concept exploits

seokjeon/SARD-vs-CVE

References

git.ghostscript.com/ (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
git.ghostscript.com/ (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
RHSA-2018:3761 (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
git.ghostscript.com/ (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
git.ghostscript.com/ (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16863?: CVE-2018-16863 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript, classified under Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2018-12-03.
How severe is CVE-2018-16863?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-16863 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.