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CVE-2018-16543

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-16543 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Artifex Ghostscript versions prior to 9.24, as well as various Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions utilizing Ghostscript. The vulnerability, residing in the gssetresolution and gsgetresolution functions, allows an attacker to achieve a significant, unspecified impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Exploitation requires user interaction and local access, but is of low complexity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0127 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-16543Important

ghostscript: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution memory corruption (699670)

Sep 6, 2018

References

git.ghostscript.com
bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPermissions RequiredVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00038.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201811-12
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3768-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4288
Third Party Advisory