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CVE-2018-16802

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-16802 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Ghostscript before version 9.25, also affecting Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat distributions. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying crafted PostScript, leveraging an incomplete fix for a previous vulnerability. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 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
2.16%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0216 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 11,617 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 (1)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-16802Important

ghostscript: Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling

Sep 12, 2018

References

git.ghostscript.com
git.ghostscript.com
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:3834
Third Party Advisory
git.ghostscript.com
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00015.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2018/q3/228
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2018/q3/229
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-4294
Third Party Advisory