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CVE-2018-19478

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-19478 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Artifex Ghostscript versions prior to 9.26, as well as Debian Linux and Ghostscript. A specially crafted PDF file can cause an extremely long computation, leading to resource exhaustion. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to trigger, resulting in high availability impact (A:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0189 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ghostscript
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ghostscript

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-19478Moderate

ghostscript: Attempting to open a carefully crafted PDF file results in long-running computation (699856)

Nov 20, 2018

References

git.ghostscript.com
bugs.ghostscript.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPermissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00019.html
Third Party Advisory
ghostscript.com / doc/9.26/History9.htm
Release Notes
securityfocus.com / bid/106445
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry