PoC Index

CVE-2018-16802

HIGH 7.8EPSS 2.2%

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.25. Incorrect "restoration of privilege" checking when running out of stack during exception handling could be used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute code using the "pipe" instruction. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-16509.

CVSS v3.0
7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
2.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 81th percentile
Published
2018-09-10
Updated
2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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