CVE-2018-16509

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24

published September 5, 2018

Patch now

High probability of exploitation

NVD has not assigned a CVSS score to this record. It sits in the 99.8th percentile for exploit probability.

CVSS
—
EPSS
92%
Percentile
99.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking during handling of /invalidaccess exceptions could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.92499 · 99.8th percentile
Published
2018-09-05T06:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 SEP 06:00Z
    An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24
    cvelistv5