CVE-2018-16863
HIGHGhostscript 9.07 - RCE
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (6)
Scores
CVSS v3
7.3
EPSS
0.0008
EPSS Percentile
24.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Classification
CWE
CWE-184
CWE-78
Status
published
Affected Products (7)
artifex/ghostscript
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop
redhat/enterprise_linux_server
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_eus
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_tus
redhat/enterprise_linux_workstation
Timeline
Published
Dec 03, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026