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CVE-2018-15909
In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 3.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, a type confusion using the .shfill operator could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
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)
- 3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (9 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.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- RHSA-2018:3650 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 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
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e01e77a36cbb2e0277bc3a63852244bec41be0f6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 105178 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b6cd1918e1ec4ffd087400a754a845180a4522b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/332928 (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/K24803507?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)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-7765 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-15909)Record last updated .