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CVE-2018-18284

Published: 19 October 2018

Artifex Ghostscript 9.25 and earlier allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via vectors involving the 1Policy operator.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.6

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
ghostscript
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.2)
cosmic
Released (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1.1)
trusty
Released (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;h=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.6
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H