CVE-2018-17961 is a high-severity sandbox bypass vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier, affecting various distributions like Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat. An attacker can exploit this flaw, which stems from an incomplete fix for a previous vulnerability, by tricking a user into opening a malicious file. Successful exploitation allows for high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as indicated by its CVSS score of 8.6. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on CISA's KEV catalog, a public exploit (EDB-45573) exists, demonstrating its exploitability. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 9.25CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
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:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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.