CVE-2018-15911
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.2%
Description
In Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 before 2018-08-24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript could use uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator to crash the interpreter or potentially execute code.
How to fix CVE-2018-15911
To remediate CVE-2018-15911, 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-2018-15911 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.2%, 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 |