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CVE-2018-16513
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use a type confusion in the setcolor function…
High7.8EPSS 1.5%
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- mitre
Description
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use a type confusion in the setcolor function to crash the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- GLSA-201811-12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- USN-3768-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://www.artifex.com/news/ghostscript-security-resolved/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699655 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-4288 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b326a71659b7837d3acde954b18bda1a6f5e9498 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180913 [SECURITY] [DLA 1504-1] ghostscript security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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