7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2018-15908

Published: 27/08/2018 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 prior to 2018-08-23, attackers are able to supply malicious PostScript files to bypass .tempfile restrictions and write files.

Vulnerability Trend

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artifex ghostscript

debian debian linux 8.0

debian debian linux 9.0

canonical ubuntu linux 16.04

canonical ubuntu linux 14.04

canonical ubuntu linux 18.04

redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0

redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0

redhat enterprise linux server 7.0

redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.6

redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6

Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Important: ghostscript security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) bas ...
Debian Bug report logs - #907332 ghostscript has a new code execution issue, even when used with -dSAFER Package: ghostscript; Maintainer for ghostscript is Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@listsdebianorg>; Source for ghostscript is src:ghostscript (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Nicolas Braud-Santoni <nicoo@deb ...
Several security issues were fixed in Ghostscript ...
It was discovered that the ghostscript shfill operator did not properly validate certain types An attacker could possibly exploit this to bypass the -dSAFER protection and crash ghostscript or, possibly, execute arbitrary code in the ghostscript context via a specially crafted PostScript document(CVE-2018-15909) An issue was discovered in Artife ...
It was discovered that the ghostscript tempfile function did not properly handle file permissions An attacker could possibly exploit this to exploit this to bypass the -dSAFER protection and delete files or disclose their content via a specially crafted PostScript document ...