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CVE-2018-18284
Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving the 1Policy operator.
- 8.6HighCVSS base score
- 16.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving the 1Policy operator.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 days later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 16.3% · top 3.0% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References12
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201811-12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_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
- DSA-4336 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20181016 ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput CVE-2018-18284 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181022 [SECURITY] [DLA 1552-1] ghostscript security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699963 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1696 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 107451 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?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-2018-10018 (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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