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CVE-2018-15911

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-15911 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript 9.23 and earlier versions, also affecting Canonical, Debian, PulseSecure, and Red Hat distributions. Attackers can exploit this by providing crafted PostScript, leading to uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator. This can result in interpreter crashes or potential arbitrary code execution. While the CVSS score is 7.8 (High), there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0304 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ghostscript-0:9.07-31.el7_6.6
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ghostscript

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-15911Moderate

ghostscript: Uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode operator (699665)

Sep 6, 2018

References

git.ghostscript.com
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3834
Third Party Advisory
bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
Permissions RequiredVendor Advisory
kb.pulsesecure.net / articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201811-12
Third Party Advisory
support.f5.com / csp/article/K22141757
usn.ubuntu.com / 3768-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4288
Third Party Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/332928
PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/105122
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry