CVE-2018-16863

HIGH

Ghostscript 9.07 - RCE

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 24.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-184 CWE-78
Status published
Products (7)
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
Published Dec 03, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026