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CVE-2018-18284

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Description

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

References

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https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4336

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3803-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-12

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00013.html

https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699963

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1696

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3834

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107451

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22141757?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/16/2

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Bh=8d19fdf63f91f50466b08f23e2d93d37a4c5ea0b

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-10-19

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.6

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00377

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