CVE-2018-18284

HIGH

Artifex Ghostscript <9.25 - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving the 1Policy operator.

References (12)

Core 12
Core References
Mitigation, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12
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/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336
Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/16/2
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699963
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1696
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107451

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0033
EPSS Percentile 56.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (15)
artifex/ghostscript < 9.25
artifex/gpl_ghostscript < 9.26
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
pulsesecure/pulse_connect_secure 8.2r1.0 - 8.2r12.1
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
... and 5 more
Published Oct 19, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026