CVSS 3.0
7.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2018-16513
High (7.8). EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-704
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- artifex:ghostscript
- artifex:gpl_ghostscript
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- pulsesecure:pulse_connect_secure
References
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b326a71659b7837d3acde954b18bda1a6f5e9498
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699655
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12