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CVE-2018-18073
Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved…
- 6.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Artifex Ghostscript allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging exposure of system operators in the saved execution stack in an error object.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
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 | 3.1 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/149758/Ghostscript-Exposed-System-Operators.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699927 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3834 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-3803-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20181010 ghostscript: saved execution stacks can leak operator arrays (CVE-2018-18073) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4336 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181022 [SECURITY] [DLA 1552-1] ghostscript security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1690 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=34cc326eb2c5695833361887fe0b32e8d987741c (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-2018-9812 (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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