THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-17961
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-17961

Ghostscript vulnerability

CVSS
8.6
EPSS
10.0%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving errorhandler setup. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-17183.
Affected vendor
Artifex
Affected product
Ghostscript
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-209 — Information Exposure Through an Error Message
Published
2018-10-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 10.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-17961

  • Confirm whether Artifex Ghostscript is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-17961.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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