Access Restriction Bypass Affecting ghostscript package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GHOSTSCRIPT-2370673
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-16863  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ghostscript.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. 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.

CVSS Scores

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