CVE-2018-16863

HIGH
7.3
CVSS Score
Published: December 3, 2018 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:44 AM UTC
7 products affected across 2 vendorsEnterprise Linux DesktopEnterprise Linux ServerEnterprise Linux Workstation

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Severity
HIGH7.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

Description

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.

Affected

Remediation

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CVSS

7.3HIGHredhat
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
LOW
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-184CWE-78

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