CVE-2018-18073

MEDIUM

Artifex Ghostscript < 9.25 - Sandbox Protection Bypass via Exposed System Operators

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699927
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/10/12
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1690

Scores

CVSS v3 6.3
EPSS 0.0028
EPSS Percentile 51.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (13)
artifex/ghostscript < 9.25
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.10
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus 7.6
... and 3 more
Published Oct 15, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026