CVE-2018-16863 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Ghostscript 9.07 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, allowing an attacker to bypass the -dSAFER protection and execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted PostScript document. This flaw is a variant of a previous, incompletely patched vulnerability. With a CVSS score of 7.8, it carries a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.07CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:9.07:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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