CVE-2018-15909
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.1%
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-15909
To remediate CVE-2018-15909, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/ghostscript—upgrade to 9.24-r0 or later
- Debian/ghostscript—upgrade to 9.22~dfsg-3 or later
Is CVE-2018-15909 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 9.24-r0
- from 0, < 9.22~dfsg-3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |